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Myōkō-ji Temple

妙行寺

According to legend, the grave of Lady Oiwa (Oiwa-san) in Yotsuya Kaidan, Japan's best-known ghost story and a direct inspiration for the Ring horror movies, is in this temple. In a nutshell, the beautiful Oiwa was disfigured, divorced and killed, and then comes back to haunt the people who wronged her.

Getting there
15 min from JR Sugamo station

Listing from Wikivoyage: Tokyo/Toshima, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Updated 28 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.