Meiji Jingu: Indoor / outdoor?

Yes. Outdoors — 700,000 square metres of woodland with gravel approaches through it. The one indoor place is the Meiji Jingu Museum, a two-storey exhibition building you pay to enter. (checked 2026-08-08)

Meiji Jingu: Outside food allowed?

Yes. Eating and drinking are not allowed outside the designated places — the shrine's list of prohibitions asks you not to smoke or eat anywhere else. The places it names for a light meal or a restaurant are Mori no Terrace and Forest Terrace Meiji Jingu. (checked 2026-08-08)

Meiji Jingu: Quietness (guide)?

Yes. The shrine asks visitors to dress appropriately for worship and to spend their time quietly, and running or sports inside the grounds are not allowed without permission — this is not a place set up for children to run around in. (checked 2026-08-08)

Meiji Jingu: Crowding (guide)?

Yes. The shrine writes that at New Year the approaches are filled with worshippers, as they are every year. (checked 2026-08-08)

Meiji Jingu: Stroller access notes?

Yes. From any entrance it is about a ten-minute walk to the main hall, along approaches spread with gravel. At the Minami-Shinmon, the gate in front of the main hall, there is a wooden beam across the threshold — the shrine asks you to step over it, not on it. North of the main hall there is a lawn, where in good weather you can sit down on the grass and take your time. (checked 2026-08-08)

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Tokyo's ancient-looking shrine forest was planted by hand a century ago.

Note: from any entrance it is about a ten-minute walk to the main hall, on approaches spread with gravel — the official Q&A has a whole question on why the paths are covered in tamajari gravel

The forest around this Tokyo shrine looks ancient, but people planted it a century ago. Forestry scholars picked species that could grow into woodland on their own, and about a hundred thousand trees arrived as gifts from across Japan. The gravel approaches pass a great wooden torii, the largest of its kind in Japan, then rows of sake barrels and Burgundy wine casks. North of the main hall, a lawn opens out beside a pond where ducks gather.

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Indoor / outdoor	屋外	Outdoors — 700,000 square metres of woodland with gravel approaches through it. The one indoor place is the Meiji Jingu Museum, a two-storey exhibition building you pay to enter	Web-checked	checked Aug ’26	meijijingu.or.jp meijijingu.or.jp
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Outside food allowed	指定場所のみ	Eating and drinking are not allowed outside the designated places — the shrine's list of prohibitions asks you not to smoke or eat anywhere else. The places it names for a light meal or a restaurant are Mori no Terrace and Forest Terrace Meiji Jingu	Web-checked	checked Aug ’26	meijijingu.or.jp
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Quietness (guide)Extra info — guide only	静か	The shrine asks visitors to dress appropriately for worship and to spend their time quietly, and running or sports inside the grounds are not allowed without permission — this is not a place set up for children to run around in	Web-checked	checked Aug ’26	meijijingu.or.jp
Crowding (guide)Extra info — guide only	Yes	The shrine writes that at New Year the approaches are filled with worshippers, as they are every year	Web-checked	checked Aug ’26	meijijingu.or.jp
Stroller access notesExtra info — guide only	Yes	From any entrance it is about a ten-minute walk to the main hall, along approaches spread with gravel. At the Minami-Shinmon, the gate in front of the main hall, there is a wooden beam across the threshold — the shrine asks you to step over it, not on it. North of the main hall there is a lawn, where in good weather you can sit down on the grass and take your time	Web-checked	checked Aug ’26	meijijingu.or.jp meijijingu.or.jp meijijingu.or.jp meijijingu.or.jp

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Fee：Visiting the shrine grounds is free. Only two places inside charge admission: Meiji Jingu Gyoen at 500 yen, and the Meiji Jingu Museum at 1,000 yen general admission (ippan), 900 yen for high school students and younger, and 900 yen for a group of 20 or more. At the Museum, children under elementary school age enter free, and a holder of a disability certificate is admitted free — the holder only■
Hours：Opening follows sunrise and closing follows sunset, so the hours change every month: January 6:40-16:20, February 6:20-16:50, March 5:40-17:20, April 5:10-17:50, May 5:00-18:10, June 5:00-18:30, July 5:00-18:20, August 5:00-18:00, September 5:20-17:20, October 5:40-16:40, November 6:10-16:10, December 6:40-16:00. Meiji Jingu is open every day throughout the year, free of charge. Some places and facilities inside keep shorter hours — mainly 9:00 to 16:00. Meiji Jingu Gyoen opens 9:00-16:30 (until 16:00 from November to February; 8:00-17:00 in June, until 18:00 at weekends) and has no closed days. The Museum opens 10:00-16:30, last entry 30 minutes before, and closes every Thursday — when that Thursday is a public holiday it opens instead — and during exhibition changeovers. The Treasure Museum is currently closed■
Booking：No booking is needed to visit. Prayer services too — the first shrine visit for a baby (hatsumiyamode) and Shichi-Go-San among them — take no reservation for individuals: you fill in a form at the entrance of the Kaguraden on the day. Only the Tokubetsu Kigansai (from 100,000 yen) and the Tokubetsu Dai-Kigansai (from 300,000 yen) are by reservation■Official booking site ↗
Note: from any entrance it is about a ten-minute walk to the main hall, on approaches spread with gravel — the official Q&A has a whole question on why the paths are covered in tamajari gravel■

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