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Nanzenji, Kyoto

Nanzenji (南禅寺) is one of the most important Zen temples in all of Japan, located at the base of Kyoto’s forested Higashiyama mountains. It is the head temple of one of the schools within the Rinzai sect of Japanese Zen Buddhism, and is in fact a complex of temple buildings that includes multiple subtemples.

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Asakusa, Tokyo

Asakusa (浅草) is situated at the center of Shitamachi (“low town”), one of Tokyo’s districts where an atmosphere of the Tokyo of past decades survives. The area’s main point of interest is Sensoji (浅草寺), a Buddhist Temple dating back to the 7th Century.

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