Regional sacred-site guide
Sacred sites in Kagawa Prefecture
Explore 25 sacred places in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, with a regional map and links to detailed site guides.
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Showing 1-25 of 25 sites in this regional guide
Daikō-ji
Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Daikō-ji, also known as Komatsuoji, sits in farmland on a low hill in Mitoyo, Kagawa....
Dōryū-ji
Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 77 Dōryū-ji in Tadotsu is known on the Shikoku route as the Eye-Healing Yakushi (me-naoshi Yakushi)....
Gōshō-ji
Utazu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 78 Gōshō-ji rises above the old port of Utazu on a hill overlooking the Seto Inland Sea....
Ichinomiya-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Ichinomiya-ji is the eighty-third temple of the Shikoku circuit and the only one historically tied to a province's principal Shinto shrine....
Iyadani-ji
Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Iyadani-ji is one of three reizan — spirit mountains — of Shikoku, places where the souls of the dead are traditionally felt to gather....
Jinne-in
Kan'onji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Jinne-in stands on Mt. Kotohiki in Kan'onji, Kagawa, sharing a single precinct with Kannon-ji at Temple 69 — one of the rarest configurations on the Shikoku 88....
Kannon-ji
Kan'onji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Kannon-ji shares its precinct on Mt. Kotohiki with Jinne-in at Temple 68, but the two temples have separate histories and separate identities....
Konzō-ji
Zentsūji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 76 Konzō-ji is the birthplace of Chishō Daishi Enchin (814–891), founder of the Tendai Jimon school and fifth abbot of Enryaku-ji on Mt Hiei....
Kotohira shrine, Kotohira, Japan
Kotohira, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
On sacred Mount Zozu rises Japan's most beloved guardian of sailors. For centuries, fishermen and naval crews, merchants and mariners have climbed up to 1,368 stone steps...
Kōyama-ji
Zentsūji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 74 Kōyama-ji stands at the foot of Mt Kōyama in Zentsūji City, where Kūkai is said to have prayed for the success of the Mannoike reservoir repair in 821 — a...
Mandara-ji
Zentsūji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Mandara-ji is the ancestral temple of the Saeki clan, into which Kūkai was born....
Motoyama-ji
Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Motoyama-ji rises from the Mitoyo plain in Kagawa, its vermillion five-storied pagoda visible across rice fields....
Motoyamaji Temple, Motoyama
Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Motoyamaji Temple, the 70th station on Shikoku's 88-temple pilgrimage, guards the approach to spiritual completion....
Nagao-ji
Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Nagao-ji is the eighty-seventh of the eighty-eight Shikoku temples — the second-to-last, set in the open Nagao district of Sanuki under an enormous camphor canopy....
Negoro-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Negoro-ji stands at 365 metres on the slopes of Mt. Aomine, deep in the cedar forest of the Goshikidai plateau....
Ōkubo-ji
Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Ōkubo-ji is the eighty-eighth and final temple of the Shikoku circuit, set in a deep valley at 450 metres between Mt. Yahazu and Mt. Nyotai near the Tokushima border....
Sanuki Kokubun-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 80 Sanuki Kokubun-ji in Takamatsu is the working successor to one of the eighth-century kokubunji — the provincial protection-temples ordered by Emperor Shōmu in...
Shido-ji
Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Shido-ji stands beside Shido Bay on the Sanuki coast as the eighty-sixth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Shiromine-ji
Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Shiromine-ji sits at 280 metres on a forested ridge of the Goshikidai plateau in Kagawa, the eighty-first temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Shusshakaji
Zentsūji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 73 Shusshakaji sits at the foot of Mt Gahaishi in Zentsūji City, Kagawa. The legend here is intimate: a seven-year-old boy named Mao — later Kūkai — leapt from a...
Tennō-ji
Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 79 Tennō-ji in Sakaide is named for the body of an emperor — Sutoku, exiled after the Hōgen Disturbance of 1156 and dead in Sanuki in 1164....
Yakuri-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Yakuri-ji clings to the western slope of Mt. Goken at 375 metres, the eighty-fifth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Yakuriji Temple, Yakuri
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 85 on the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage, Yakuriji sits high on Mount Goken, the Mountain of Five Swords, whose dramatic peaks thrust skyward like divine blades....
Yashima-ji
Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Yashima-ji crowns the mesa of Yashima, 293 metres above the Seto Inland Sea, and is the eighty-fourth temple of the Shikoku circuit....
Zentsū-ji
Zentsūji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Temple 75 Zentsū-ji stands on the ground where Kūkai was born in 774. Founded by him in 807 on his return from Tang China, it is the head temple of the Zentsuji-ha school...
Key questions
Kagawa Prefecture sacred-site questions
- How many sacred sites are listed in Kagawa Prefecture?
- This regional guide currently includes 25 sacred sites in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.
- Which traditions are represented in Kagawa Prefecture?
- The most represented traditions in the current guide include Buddhism, Shinto.
- Can I view Kagawa Prefecture sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Switch to map view to compare the listed places, then open a site page for coordinates and visiting context.