In the late 7th century, Tochigi formed Shimotsuke Province. During that time was built the Shimotsuke-Yakushi temple, making it the Buddhist capital of the Kanto Region.
In the early 15th century, Ashikaga University, Japan’s oldest school of higher education, was re-established, holding over 3000 students by the 16th century. Saint Francis Xavier introduced Ashikaga to the [...]

In the fifth year of the Keiun era (708), deposits of copper were reported to have been found in the Chichibu District of what is now Saitama Prefecture.
The Saitama area was historically known as a fertile agricultural region which produced much of the food for the Kantō region. During the Edo period, many fudai daimyo [...]

In medieval Japan, Kanagawa was part of the provinces of Sagami and Musashi.
During the Edo period, the western part of Sagami Province was governed by the daimyo of Odawara Castle, while the eastern part was directly governed by the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo (Tokyo).
Commodore Matthew Perry landed in Kanagawa in 1853 and 1854, and signed [...]

Japan was without horses until around the early centuries AD, and present-day Gunma was a center of the horsebreeding and trading activities when continental peoples and Japanese began a strong trade in the animals.
When Mt Haruna erupted in the late 6th century Japan was still in pre-history, but the Gunma Prefectural archaeology unit in 1994 [...]

Ibaraki Prefecture was previously known as Hitachi Province. In 1871, the name of the province became Ibaraki. The name of the prefecture is also occasionally misspelled “Ibaragi.” Ibaraki Prefecture is the northeastern part of the Kantō region, stretching between Tochigi Prefecture and the Pacific Ocean and bounded on the north and south by Fukushima Prefecture [...]

Chiba is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on January 1, 1921 and was designated on April 1, 1992 by government ordinance. It is located approximately 40 km east of the center of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a government designated city in 1992. Its population as of [...]

Tokyo City used to be a municipality in Japan which existed from 1889 until it merged with Tokyo Prefecture in 1943.
1868, the medieval city Edo, seat of the Tokugawa government, was renamed Tokyo, and the offices of Tokyo Prefecture were opened. The extent of Tokyo Prefecture was initially limited to the former Edo city, but [...]

“Peaceful Nation Shrine” or “Pacifying the Nation Shrine” is a Shinto shrine in Tokyo built in 1869 to house the kami (spirits) of Japanese war dead. The shrine was founded in 1869 as Tokyo Shokonsha, and was renamed Yasukuni Shrine in 1879.
Currrently, the shrine’s Book of Souls lists the names of some 2.5 million soldiers [...]

Zojoji was founded in 1393 as an orthodox and fundamental nembutsu seminary for Jodo shu and is the main temple of the Buddhist Jodo sect in the Kanto area.
It moved to its present location in 1598 and is directly next to the Tokyo Tower.
The Sanmon, the main gate to the Zojoji Temple, was built in [...]

First built by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1612, Sengakuji temple belongs to the Zen Soto sect. it is a small temple in Minato-ku and famous for its graveyard where the “47 Ronin” (also known as Akoroshi, the “masterless samurai from Ako”) are buried. The tale of the 47 ronin in one of Japan’s most popular historical [...]