The annual limited Million Candle Night by Tokyo Tower
6.21, this year's summer solstice, happened to be in Tokyo, so I went to this 'Million Candle Night,' which is said to be a once-a-year limited event, intended to pray for the souls of those who have passed away due to natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.) over the years.
The location is at Zojoji Temple, very close to Tokyo Tower.
I went there around 16:30, and during the day, you could see from the entrance of the temple, a row of white candles extending to the steps, all the way to the main stage. After dark, the candles were lit, and the scene was spectacular.
Moreover, to support this event, at 20:00, Tokyo Tower would even turn off its lights for a while, leaving only the candles glowing. Unfortunately, I went to have dinner at that time and missed the moment when the lights were turned off.
Speaking of Zojoji Temple itself, it's quite nice to visit during the day, with a genuine exhibition of the temple, a row of windmill Jizo statues for praying for children, and even the graveyard of the Tokugawa family.
The key is that I didn't expect to find such a temple so close to Tokyo Tower, and after watching the event at night, you can directly walk to the base of Tokyo Tower, which is very comfortable.
Japan has lost this temple, it seems very clean, because its geographical location is relatively special, this temple when I went there were a lot of monks here to read scriptures, cultivate their body, such a scene looks so quiet, so peaceful
The place where the cherry blossoms, shrines and Tokyo Towers of Japanese elements gather together is in Zengshang Temple. There are large cherry blossom trees in Zengshang Temple near the Tokyo Tower. Every time the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, it is amazing. It is a good place to enjoy cherry blossoms in the Tokyo Metropolitan area.
Zengshang Temple and Kumano Shrine near the Daemun Station are places where you can see the large Tokyo Tower very close, and people rarely take pictures. In fact, Zengshang Temple and Kumano Shrine are in the same place, and Kumano Shrine is at the corner of the entrance of Zengshang Temple. I used to find it very strange why there are often other inari shrines or other small shrines in the temple, obviously different religions! Later, I learned that the Japanese faith in the god Buddha was indistinguishable, so I would see that there was a shrine in the temple. At the Meiji era, the separation order of the god Buddha was issued, but I could not call the shrine to move, so I would use trees or fences to separate each other and pretend not to be in the same place.
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Zengshang Temple is one of seven Daben Mountains in the west of the Japanese Pure Tuzong Town, but originally belonged to the temple of Zhenyanzong, formerly known as Guangming Temple. The first ancestor of Kaishan, the Shangsong of the Emperor, was educated by the seven ancestors of the Emperor of the Holy Temple in 1385 when he was released from Chiba Temple. She was converted to his door by the teachings of the true saying of the Emperor, and inherited the orthodoxy of the Emperor of the Holy Land in December 1393. The purpose of the temple was changed to Jingshizong and the temple was renamed Zengshang Temple. The three-length gate is the oldest building in Tokyo and the largest gate in East Japan. It belongs to the middle gate of Zengshang Temple. With the assistance of Tokugawa Kakamakawa, the main foreman of the Edo Shogunate was hired at the time, and was built in 1622. This gate can be said to be added to the many buildings built by the temple in the early days of Edo, the only remaining buildings left, the "three releases" in the name of the main buildings that were not destroyed during the war, which means that the three poisons "grave, greed, and idiot" can be freed.
During the cherry blossom season, the precincts are dyed all pink, making you feel gorgeous! !!