Two easy and generally rewarding short day-trips you can make from Tokyo are to Kawagoe , northwest of the centre, and Mount Takao , directly to the west. In Kawagoe, the attractions are a rare collection of nineteenth-century storehouses known as kurazukuri (many still in use) and an even rarer fragment of old Edo's original palace in the grounds of the venerable, colourful temple Kita-in .
The jewel of verdant Mount Takao is also a picturesque temple, Yakuo-in , which hosts a spectacular fire-walking festival
annually. The rest of the year, pilgrims are joined by multitudes of hikers who meander along the many trails around the 600-metre mountain, several leading further afield to Chichibu National Park to the northwest. On the way to Takao from Tokyo you could also consider visiting the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum , an annexe of the Edo-Tokyo Museum and a convenient, if somewhat sterile, place to view prime pieces of vernacular architecture from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.
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