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About 1900 years ago, the old shrine is said to have been enshrined in the land of Sendagi by Nihon Taketoshi (Yamatotake Mikoto). In Hoei 3 (1706), the Tokugawa 5th Shōgun, Tsunayoshi, built the present-day shrine. Goningzukuri's Sōrei Shrine, Tangmen, and Tōmen have been designated as Important Cultural Properties. It is also famous for azaleas.

A small Karintou shop in the back alley of Yushima, which is beautiful as a jewel and has a glossy figure that is characteristic of Kagetsu Karintou, and is also familiar to many famous people, including the Rakurin family and entertainers.

In 1932, popular products from the time of its inception are 259 yen per piece during the university. There are many people who ask for a successful prayer or for a graduation celebration. There are always 30 to 40 kinds of seasonal confectionery.

“Half Saints TOKYO”, which opened in Hongo in November 2022, is a take-out and delivery shop where you can enjoy colorful one-hand food “puff pizza”. One of the concepts of "Half Saints TOKYO" is the marriage of food and drink. Recommended in combination with puff pizza. In addition, "fermented orange ale" made by fermenting oranges for two weeks and "hot lemon ginger" with plenty of ginger are also recommended.

A long-established Western-style confectionery shop that has been around a six-minute walk from Hongo Sanchome Station; a long-established store that has been attended by the actors of the Takarazuka Uta and Kabuki since ancient times; and "Ichigo Shante", a sweet made of whole strawberries, is very popular.

A free PR facility operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Waterworks Bureau in Hongo, Tokyo. Introducing the history of water supply and water supply technology and equipment spanning about 400 years from Edo Josui to modern times, such as Tamagawa Josui and Kanda Josui, in real-life materials, reproduction models, and video materials. The water towers of the Edo period row houses and the Muramashita Reservations, which have been recreated in full scale, are a masterpiece. Free lending of 4-language audio guidance and AR guided tours that can be experienced in a row house, and viewing and lending services (library) of water supply and books related to Edo Josui are also enriched. We also provide group tour guidance (reservation required for 5 or more) by attendants.

The "Yushima no Kobayashi", a shop of dyed paper and Edo chiyo paper founded in Ansei 5 (1858), was opened to help make you feel comfortable with the Japanese-style Japanese-style Japanese-style Japanese-style Japanese-style paper culture, including the origami. You can tour the gallery on the second floor and the dyed workshop (work irregular), which produces hand-dyed washi paper. Classroom works such as origami are sold on the first floor, and various origami and chiyo paper are sold on the third floor shop. If you are lucky, you can meet the sight of Kazuo Kobayashi, the director of the museum, who breaks the origami at the sales floor and shows it. Even though it is folded in the rough, the work that comes from one hand to the next seems to see magic.

It was the beginning of a house built by Hayashiyama in Ueno Shinogaoka in Kanei 7 (1630), and is now designated a national historic site. It was founded on Yujima in the year of Genroku 3 (1690) by the Tokugawa 5th Shōgun Tōkichi. In the year of Kansei 9 (1797), the "Shoheizaka" school, which was directly under the shogunate, was attached to the school. The current Taisei-den was rebuilt in 1935 (Showa 10) to replicate the scale of the time.

Known as the god of scholarship because it enshrines Michizane Sugawara, it is visited by many applicants and visitors every spring, along with the "Shiroume of Yujima" blooming in the precincts. He is also famous for appearing in the "Onna Keizu" "by Kazuka Izumi. A treasure hall is also attached.

You can enjoy a hot spring that has a beautiful skin effect that springs from 1700m underground at Tokyo Dome City. The "Healing Verde" is a popular space for adults who sweat carefully in a bedrock bath while enjoying the resort feeling. The spa is full of body care facilities and restaurants.