God who sits on an island where a bridge is built only once a year. Japan travel

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Zempukuji Park, Suginami Ward, Tokyo. Benten-sama sits on an island in a vast pond.
The bridge has now been removed, and only once a year on April 8, when the annual festival is held, can the bridge be crossed and the shrine visited.
Minamoto no Yoritomo (1567-1591) is said to have invited the god to the temple, and since then, rain-making ceremonies have been held there during droughts.
It is interesting to know that such a nature-rich sanctuary remains in Tokyo.
Please come and feel it!

Source
Compiled from a map of Gen no Yoritomo's Mukushu expedition in Bunji 5 (Tokyo Metropolitan Library)
Created by processing "Doshishirube near Edo, vol. 26 [24]"(National Diet Library)

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