Tsukuba

Tsukuba lies beneath the twin peaks of Mount Tsukuba, which rise above the eastern Kantō plain. The mountain has long been revered as a sacred place, with shrines and Buddhist buildings on its slopes. Tokugawa Ieyasu regarded it as a protector of Edo, and his successors supported its religious institutions. In 1633 the third shogun, Iemitsu, completed a lavish rebuilding of the mountain's halls and shrines.