Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine is just 5 minutes’ walk from Monzen-Nakacho Station, which I featured last week. This shrine was the top-notch place where people in Edo visited for leisure some 200 years ago, and still attracts many people in Tokyo now.
There are many “Hachimangu”s in Japan. They are the shrines which enshrine “Hachiman”, one of the gods of Shinto, the native religion for Japanese. It is better for you to stay away from understanding what Shinto is in detail, because even almost all Japanese people do not understand it either. I think Shinto is rather a culture, culture for Japanese people which dates back to more than 1000 years. People in Japan enjoy their lives following Shinto events, without thinking what they are nor what they mean.
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