TÅgÅ Shrine
The Tōgō Shrine (Japanese东 郷 神社, Tōgō -jinja ) is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Tokyo's Harajuku district ( part of Shibuya ) and was built in 1940. Will become in him, among other personalities of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Admiral Tōgō Heihachiro worshiped as the supreme Kami. The Tōgō Shrine is the main shrine of further Tōgō shrines in Japan.
Particularly well known is the shrine for its flea market, one of the largest and most popular in Tokyo, the clock in the afternoon to 3 takes place in good weather on the first Sunday of the month of 5 clock in the morning. Also the popular antique market every first and fourth Sunday of the month (of 4 clock in the morning to 3 clock in the afternoon).
One of the main festivities of Tōgō shrine each year aligned on 27 May, the anniversary of the Battle of Tsushima (1905 ). The battle flag of the flagship Mikasa Admiral Tōgō plays a central role, which he has donated as a representative of Japan in 1911 at the coronation of George V. HMS Worcester, on which he had learned during his studies in the UK. After the HMS Worcester in 1978 retired from active service, the battle flag was the property of the Marine Society, the largest British naval charity.
Since 2005, the battle flag is on permanent loan to the Marine Society of the Tōgō Shrine. Captain Jeremy Howard, former director of the Marine Society, and other members attended the ceremony in the shrine in this regard in 2005.
35.671805555556139.70592222222Koordinaten: 35 ° 40 ' 19 " N, 139 ° 42' 21" E
- Shrine located in Tokyo
- Building in Shibuya