The closest metro stations to the Meiji Shrine are the Harajuku station and the Kita-Sando Station. The shrine is free to visit and welcomes visitors from sunrise to sunset every day, but the ...

Meiji Jingu officials said the shrine usually is packed with worshipers during the first three days of the year and advise tourists to consider when to visit the shrine during its peak congestion ...

This marked the young princess’s first official visit to the shrine, dedicated to Shoken (1849-1914) and her husband, Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), the first emperor of modern Japan. Aiko ...

Wright received an original request from Meiji Shrine to translate poems of Emperor Meiji (1852-1912) and Empress Shoken (1850-1914) in 1964, when he was a student at Tokyo’s Keio University.