Kanei-ji

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During the Tokugawa reign, Kanei-ji was a powerful temple – its grounds once covered all of what is now Ueno-kōen (its pagoda is inside Ueno Zoo). With the fall of the shogun, the temple was greatly diminished, and is hardly visited today.

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