Found in Ueno Park,  it is still a kind of a mystery that this shrine still exists.. The original shrine is said to have been built in 1627 by the warrior Todo Takatora,  daimyo of Iga and Ise. The wooden, intricately decorated Toshogu shrine survived repeated fire bombing raids, massive earthquakes, and even one of the major battles of the 1868 civil war. As a reminder of the days of the Tokugawa Bafuku (Shogunate),  it is one of the few remaining links Tokyo  still has to  its former past Edo. The name “Toshogu” is a royal title. Literally translated, Toshogu means “Light of the East” or “Sun god of the east”.Toshogu shrines were built throughout the whole country often adjoining important temples which had a family or personal connection with Tokugawa Ieyasu. There were about 200 Toshogu shrines with it’s deity as Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ueno Toshogu was declared a Tokyo municipal shrine in 1873, and in 1907 the Haiden, Karamon and Mizu-Gaki were declared National Treasure.