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Airex, Unusual Shrine Building

Fri, February 25, 2011, by Muza-chan

If you’re looking for unusual places to visit, very close to the Kudanshita Station in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, you can visit the Airex Building. The building itself has a great design (and it received a prize for architecture in 1994), but what is unusual about it is the fact that this is a… shrine building.

The first sign that this is actually a Shinto shrine is given by the red torii and the two komainu guarding the entrance. However, being accustomed to Tokyo’s cramped space, I was tempted to consider it just another building constructed very close to a shrine.

But this is a special case, the building is actually part of the shrine. Passing through the torii, after a small corridor, you’ll reach the inner shrine, the Tsukudo Shrine, dedicated to Taira no Masakado, the God of samurai.

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Airex Building, Tsukudo Shrine, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Airex Building, Tsukudo Shrine, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
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Nikon D300
Lens: 12-24mm F/4G
Focal Length: 18mm
Aperture: F/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/640s
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 200
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