Local Secret · Ryogoku
Ejima Sugiyama Shrine 江島杉山神社
A small Ryogoku shrine with a man-made cave, honouring the blind acupuncturist who invented tube-guided needling.
About
The shrine commemorates Sugiyama Waichi, an Edo-period blind acupuncturist, and has a small artificial grotto copying the Enoshima caves where he trained. Visitors walk through the dim cave to small shrines inside.
Highlights
- Walk-through grotto modelled on Enoshima
- Tribute to a blind Edo acupuncturist
Tips
- Close to Ryogoku Station and the Sumo hall
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