Five Story Pagoda (Tokyo)
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Also known as: Ueno Pagoda
Also known as: Kan'ei-ji Pagoda
Built: 1639
Type: Holy Place
Stories: 5
Maximum height: 36.6 meters / 120 feet
Location: Ueno-Koen --, Taito-ku
Built for the Tokugawa shoguns, the Kan'ei-ji pagoda now stands inside the Ueno Park Zoo. This whole area was originally the grounds for the Kan'ei-ji temple which was erected to protect the Edo castle. But during the Boshin War from 1868 to 1869 the temple was destroyed. The pagoda survived, and a bustling neighborhood has grown up around it
Also known as: Kan'ei-ji Pagoda
Built: 1639
Type: Holy Place
Stories: 5
Maximum height: 36.6 meters / 120 feet
Location: Ueno-Koen --, Taito-ku
Built for the Tokugawa shoguns, the Kan'ei-ji pagoda now stands inside the Ueno Park Zoo. This whole area was originally the grounds for the Kan'ei-ji temple which was erected to protect the Edo castle. But during the Boshin War from 1868 to 1869 the temple was destroyed. The pagoda survived, and a bustling neighborhood has grown up around it
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 35°42'56"N 139°46'18"E
- Rissho Kosei-kai 11 km
- Ikegami Honmonji temple 16 km
- Karasuyama Teramachi "Temple Town" District 17 km
- Heirin-ji 22 km
- Sojiji temple 25 km
- Kofukusan Kenchô-ji (建長寺) 47 km
- Yakuo-in Temple 48 km
- Naritasan Shinshogi Temple 50 km
- Nihon-ji Temple (officially Kenkon-zan Nihon-ji) 62 km
- Gotemba Peace Park 88 km
- Ueno Zoo 0.1 km
- Ueno Park 0.1 km
- Tokyo National Museum 0.5 km
- Yanaka cemetery 1.1 km
- Yushima district 1.2 km
- Taito 1.3 km
- Asakusa 2.2 km
- Bunkyo 2.4 km
- Arakawa 2.8 km
- Sumida 3.9 km