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Built in 1920, this revered Shinto shrine in Tokyo sees around 3 million visitors every year. Despite this, it's an oasis of calm surrounded by 100,000 trees.

Pre-release footage showed protagonist Yasuke destroying tables, racks, and artifacts inside the Itatehyozu Shrine, a direct in-game recreation of the real Shinto site in Hyogo Prefecture.

We drank Japanese tea, ate a Sumo-style hot pot dinner, walked through a bamboo forest and even climbed inside a giant Buddha ...

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We saw temples and shrines ... climbed inside a giant, 750-year-old bronze Buddha statue. We fed wild deer who were as tame as our dogs at home, climbed through ancient orange Shinto gates ...