Japan

Akagi Shrine

Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan

Akagi Shrine (赤城神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...

Akasaka Hikawa Shrine

Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Akasaka Hikawa Shrine (赤坂氷川神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...

Akechi-ji

Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Akechi-ji is the ninth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....

Akita Seibo no Sono

Yuzawadai, Akita Prefecture, Japan

In the hills of Yuzawadai outside Akita City, the Institute of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist preserves a wooden statue of Mary that,...

Akyū Ruins

Hara, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Six thousand years ago, the Jomon people gathered here to tend sacred fires beneath the gaze of Mount Tateshina....

Amanoiwato Shrine

Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

In a forested gorge in Kyushu's Takachiho region, pilgrims have gathered for centuries at the cave where Amaterasu, the sun goddess and ancestress of Japan's Imperial...

An'yō-in

Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

An'yō-in is the third station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a small Jōdo-shū temple in Kamakura founded as Hōjō Masako's grief-prayer for her husband Minamoto no Yoritomo,...

Ana-hachimangu Shrine

Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan

Ana-hachimangu Shrine (穴八幡宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Anamori Inari Shrine

Ota City, Tokyo, Japan

Anamori Inari Shrine (穴守稲荷神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Anao-ji

Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Anao-ji is station 21 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Kyoto dedicated to Shō Kannon....

Anko-ji

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Ankō-ji is an independent Tendai temple founded in 775 CE by Prince Kaisei on a wooded hillside north of Takatsuki....

Anraku-ji

Yoshimi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Anraku-ji, the Yoshimi Kannon, is the eleventh station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage....

Anraku-ji

Kamiita, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Anraku-ji is Temple 6 of the Shikoku 88, in Kamiita, Tokushima. Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of Healing, presides here, and Anraku-ji is the only fudasho with its own onsen....

Araiyakushi Baishouin

Nakano City, Tokyo, Japan

Araiyakushi Baishouin (薬王寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Asagaya Shinmeigū

Suginami City, Tokyo, Japan

Asagaya Shinmeigū (阿佐ヶ谷神明宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Asakusa Shrine

Taito City, Tokyo, Japan

Asakusa Shrine (浅草神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Asuka-dera

Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan

In a quiet valley surrounded by rice fields, Japan's oldest surviving Buddha statue has watched from the same location for over 1,400 years....

Atago Jinja

Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Atago Jinja (愛宕神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...

Atago Shrine (Atago Jinja)

Part of Mt. Atago

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Atago Shrine crowns Mount Atago at 924 meters, the highest point surrounding Kyoto....

Atsuta Shrine

Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Atsuta Shrine houses Kusanagi-no-tsurugi, the Grass-Cutting Sword—one of three sacred objects that legitimize Japan's Imperial throne....

Awa Kokubun-ji

Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Awa Kokubun-ji is the official kokubunji—provincial Buddhist temple—of Awa Province, founded by imperial edict of Emperor Shōmu in 741 to pray for the welfare of the...

Azabusan Zenpukuji

Minato City, Tokyo, Japan

Azabusan Zenpukuji (麻布山 善福寺) is an active Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Beppu Hells (Jigoku)

Beppu, Oita Prefecture, Japan

The Hells of Beppu have inspired awe and terror for over a millennium. These boiling, steaming pools of vivid color gave physical form to Buddhist visions of the suffering...

Bodai-ji

Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Bodai-ji is station bangai-bodai-ji on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Kazan-in branch temple in Hyogo dedicated to Kannon....

Boku'un-ji

Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Boku'un-ji is the sixth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....

Butsumoku-ji

Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Butsumoku-ji is the forty-second temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and one of its most distinctive: a Shingon temple where the principal image was carved from a camphor...

Buttsū-ji

Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Buttsū-ji — Omoto-san Buttsū-ji — is the head temple (daihonzan) of the Buttsū-ji branch of Rinzai Zen, founded in 1397 by Kobayakawa Haruhira and Zen master Gucchū Shūkyū...

Byōdō-in

Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Amida’s Pure Land reflected in the waters before Phoenix Hall. Byōdō-in remains an active Pure Land Buddhism temple....

Byōdō-ji

Anan, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Byōdō-ji, Temple 22 of the Shikoku 88, takes its name from Kūkai's vow that all illness be healed equally....

Chiba-dera

Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Chiba-dera — also read Senyō-ji — is the 29th station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho and Chiba City's oldest temple....

Chikatsuyu-oji

Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Chikatsuyu-oji (近露王子) is an old oji beside the Hiki River where historical pilgrims performed cold-water purification on the Nakahechi section of the Kumano Kodo....

Chikurin-ji

Kōchi, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Chikurin-ji crowns Mt. Godaisan above Kōchi City — a Japanese Mañjuśrī mountain modelled on China's Mt....

Chion-in

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Nembutsu carried through the head temple of Honen’s Jōdo school. Chion-in remains an active Jōdo Buddhism temple....

Chōhō-ji (Rokkaku-dō)

Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Chōhō-ji (Rokkaku-dō) is station 18 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism, Ikenobō / ikebana lineage temple in Kyoto dedicated to Nyoirin Kannon....

Chōkoku-ji (Iiyama Kannon)

Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Iiyama Kannon — the local name for Chōkoku-ji on the slopes of Mount Hakusan in Atsugi — has drawn pilgrims for some thirteen centuries....

Chōkoku-ji (Shiraiwa Kannon)

Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Chōkoku-ji at Shiraiwa, the Shiraiwa Kannon, is the fifteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage and one of the few remaining Shugendō-affiliated temples on the...

Chōmei-ji

Ōmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Chōmei-ji is station 31 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon Jūichimen Kannon Shō Kannon....

Chōsen-in

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Chōsen-in — Sasado-san Chōsen-in — is the 29th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple in the Urayama River valley of Chichibu, Saitama....

Chuson-ji

Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Chuson-ji, stands in Hiraizumi. At Chuson-ji, Tendai Buddhism guides custody. Prayer at Chuson-ji addresses Shaka Nyorai, Amida Nyorai, and the Lotus Sutra....

Chūzen-ji

Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan

Chūzen-ji, station 18 of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, sits on the eastern shore of Lake Chūzenji at 1,269 meters, beneath sacred Mount Nantai....

Daien-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Daien-ji — Ryūga-zan Daien-ji — is the 27th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple in the Kagemori valley of Chichibu, Saitama....

Daihō-ji

Kumakōgen, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Daihō-ji is the forty-fourth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and its symbolic midpoint, the Nakafudasho....

Daihonzan Eiheiji (Eihei Temple)

Eiheiji Town, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Hidden in the cedar forests of Fukui Prefecture, Eiheiji stands as one of the two head temples of Soto Zen Buddhism....

Daihōon-ji

Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Daihōon-ji, known popularly as Senbon Shakadō, holds Kyoto's oldest surviving wooden building inside the city limits — a 1227 National Treasure main hall that survived the...

Daiji-ji

Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Daiji-ji, the tenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Sōtō Zen temple founded in 1490 in the Yokoze hills....

Daikaku-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Heart Sutra, flower practice, and imperial memory beside Osawa Pond. Daikaku-ji remains an active Shingon Buddhism, Daikaku-ji school temple....

Daikō-ji

Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Daikō-ji, also known as Komatsuoji, sits in farmland on a low hill in Mitoyo, Kagawa....

Dainichi-ji

Kōnan, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Dainichi-ji enshrines Dainichi Nyorai, the cosmic Buddha at the centre of Shingon doctrine, in a wooded precinct in rural Kōnan....