Yasakuni Shrine

From the Korakuen Garden, it was a short walk to the Yasakuni Shrine. This was the only thing that I picked for us to do today. It seemed like a nice historical spot because the Yasakuni Shrine is dedicated to all of the war heroes in Japanese history. This includes World War II heroes. It is always a very controversial event when some high ranking official visits this place, especially in the eyes of the Chinese and Koreans, who suffered at the hands of the Japanese during the 20th century. I wanted to come and see the place where so much controversy has brewed.

If I didn’t know better, I would not have been able to tell anything special about this particular shrine. One thing that stood out was that the minister of war from the Meiji era had a statue in front of the shrine. Other than that, there really wasn’t any sort of evidence that this was a shrine related to war and controversy.