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Faith As Inoculation At Tokyo's Health Temples

Gail Nakada | Posted 04.27.2013 | Travel
Read More: Traditional Medicine, Traditional Healing, Travel, Healing, Travel to Japan, Japan, Temples, Fun Things to Do in Tokyo, Health, Alternative Medicine, Buddhist, Shrines, Tokyo, Alternative Therapy, Medicine, Shinto, Sugamo, Zojoji, Koganji, Travel News
Gail Nakada

Koganji has been drawing hopeful health seekers to Sugamo since 1656. Believers come to pray to the powerful Togenuki Jizo statue.

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Past Is Prelude In Japan

Jim Calio | Posted 11.21.2012 | Travel
Read More: Moats, Palace Hotel Tokyo, Imperial Palace, High Rises, Shrines, Imperial Palace Gardens, Tokyo, Swans, Tokyo Hotels, Court Life, Japan, Temples, Yanasen, Travel News
Jim Calio

On my last day in the city, I watched a businessman approach a shrine, waft incense smoke from a pot into his nostrils and then continue on to work, his leather briefcase in hand.

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