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Jyomyo-In Temple in Yanaka

Home to 84,000 Buddhist saints

Between Ueno Park and Yanaka Cemetery, Jyomyo-In is a Buddhist temple notable for its ranks of jizo, statues of the guardian saint of children. There are so many that it's said there are eighty-four thousand of them, and while that seems implausible (I didn't count them), there are certainly a lot. Most of them are lined up in rows, ancient and weathered, lending to that part of the temple the hushed air of a cemetery, the only sound the leaves rustling in the wind.

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