Buddhism sacred sites in Japan

Akechi-ji

Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

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

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,...

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

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....

Anraku-ji

Yoshimi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

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

Araiyakushi Baishouin

Nakano City, Tokyo, Japan

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

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....

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-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....

Chikurin-ji

Kōchi, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

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

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....

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....

Daikō-ji

Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

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

Dainichi-ji

Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Dainichi-ji stands directly across the road from Awa Ichinomiya Shrine, the highest-ranked Shintō shrine of Awa Province....

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....

Dainichi-ji

Itano, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Dainichi-ji is Temple 4 of the Shikoku 88, in Itano, Tokushima. It enshrines Dainichi Nyorai, the cosmic Buddha at the center of Shingon esotericism....

Daisen-ji

Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, Japan

Daisen-ji, the 29th station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, sits high on Mt. Daisen — at 1,729 meters the highest peak in the Chūgoku region....

Daiun-in

Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan

Daiun-in in Tottori, the 33rd and final station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, is the route's manzanji — the place where pilgrim journeys complete....

Denzuin

Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan

Denzuin (傳通院) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Dewa Shrine and Mt. Haguro

Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Mount Haguro rises in Yamagata as the gateway to the Three Mountains of Dewa - Japan's most powerful journey of spiritual death and rebirth....

Dōji-dō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Dōji-dō is the twenty-second station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — literally 'Children's Hall,' a Shingon Buzan-ha temple where Kannon has been invoked for...

Dōjō-ji

Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Dōjō-ji is the oldest documented temple in Wakayama Prefecture, founded in 701 CE by the monk Gien at Emperor Monmu's command....

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)....

Eifuku-ji

Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Eifuku-ji sits in a quiet bamboo and cedar grove on a low hill above Imabari, the 57th stop on the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage....

Eifuku-ji

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Eifuku-ji at Taishi-chō, Osaka, guards the tomb of Prince Shōtoku — Japan's foundational royal patron of Buddhism — alongside his mother and consort in a single circular...

Ekōin Temple

Sumida City, Tokyo, Japan

Ekōin Temple (回向院) is an active Jōdo-shū Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

En'yū-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

En'yū-ji is the twenty-sixth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Rinzai Zen temple of the Kenchō-ji branch with an unusual feature: the Iwai-dō, a stage-built...

Engyō-ji

Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Engyo-ji is station 27 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Hyogo dedicated to Nyoirin Kannon....

Enkō-ji (Myō-ō-in)

Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Enkō-ji, also known as Myō-ō-in, sits on Atago-yama above the Kusado Sengen archaeological site in Fukuyama, Hiroshima....

Enkōji

Sukumo, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Enkō-ji is the thirty-ninth and final temple of the Tosa (Kōchi) section of the Shikoku 88, set in Sukumo....

Enmei-ji

Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 54 of the Shikoku henro is the first of six temples clustered around Imabari....

Enmyō-ji

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 53 of the Shikoku henro is small, layered, and unusually plural. Its Shingon Hondō houses an Amida Nyorai principal image — uncommon for the school....

Enpuku-ji

Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Enpuku-ji is the 27th Bandō station and the easternmost stop of the eastern Kannon circuit....

Enryaku-ji temple and Mt. Hiei

Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Enryaku-ji stands as the root of Japanese Buddhism, the mountain monastery that trained the founders of virtually every major Buddhist school in Japan....

Entsū-ji

Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Entsū-ji crowns a small mountain in Tamashima, Kurashiki, and serves as Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage station #7....

Fujii-dera

Fujiidera, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Fujii-dera is station 5 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Omuro-ha temple in Osaka dedicated to Senju Kannon. Founded in the early 8th century....

Fujii-dera

Yoshinogawa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Fujii-dera sits at the foot of a steep mountain ridge in Yoshinogawa, the threshold temple before the most demanding stretch of the Shikoku 88....

Fukagawa Fudō-dō

Koto City, Tokyo, Japan

Fukagawa Fudō-dō (深川不動堂 (成田山東京別院)) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Gakuen-ji (Ichijō-in)

Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan

Gakuen-ji (Ichijō-in), the 25th station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, occupies a steep forested ridge north of Izumo Taisha....

Ganden-ji

Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Ganden-ji — locally known as Iwadono Kannon — is the second station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, set on a hilltop above Zushi....

Gankei-ji

Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Gankei-ji is station bangai-gankei-ji on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Kyoto dedicated to Kannon....

Gaya-in

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Gaya-in, formally Ōtanizan Daikei-ji Gaya-in, is one of Hyōgo's most important Honzan Shugendō temples — a Tendai-affiliated branch of mountain ascetic Buddhism....

Gōdo-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Gōdo-ji, eighteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Sōtō Zen temple whose name 'Divine Gate' (神門) commemorates a stand of sakaki trees that once formed...

Gohyaku Rakanji Temple

Meguro City, Tokyo, Japan

Gohyaku Rakanji Temple (天恩山 五百羅漢寺) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Goka-dō

Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Goka-dō is the fifth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....

Gokokuji

Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan

Gokokuji (護国寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Gokuraku-ji

Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Gokuraku-ji is Temple 2 of the Shikoku 88, sitting 1.4 km southwest of Temple 1 in Naruto....

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....

Gōtoku-ji

Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan

Gōtoku-ji (大谿山 豪徳寺) is an active Sōtō Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Gumyō-ji

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Gumyō-ji, the Gumyōji Kannon, is the fourteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage and Yokohama's oldest temple....

Gyōgan-ji (Kōdō)

Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Gyōgan-ji (Kōdō) is station 19 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism, Miyako Shichifukujin temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....

Hanta-ji

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 50 of the Shikoku henro stands on a wooded hillside above southern Matsuyama, its Yakushi Nyorai principal image attributed by tradition to the wandering monk Gyōki....

Hase-dera

Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hase-dera is station 8 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Buzan-ha temple in Nara dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....

Hase-dera

Sakurai, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Hase-dera in Kamakura is the fourth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a hillside temple above Yuigahama beach famous for its Eleven-Headed Kannon, a 9.18-metre gilded...

Hashidate-dō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hashidate-dō — Sekiryū-zan Hashidate-dō — is the 28th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple set beneath an eighty-metre limestone cliff in the...

Henshō-ji (Hōkai-in)

Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Henshō-ji, also known as Hōkai-in, sits at the base of wooded Kongōsan in northern Okayama City....

Higashi Hongan-ji

Taito City, Tokyo, Japan

Higashi Hongan-ji (東本願寺) is an active Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Hōchō-ji

Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōchō-ji is the seventh station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....

Hōgon-ji

Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Hogon-ji is station 30 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Buzan-ha, Benzaiten devotion temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon....

Hōju-ji

Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Hōju-ji is the 62nd fudasho on the Shikoku 88, an 8th-century imperial foundation that has been moved at least four times—by flood, war, Meiji separation, and the...

Hōki-in

Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hōki-in is station bangai-hoki-in on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Buzan branch temple in Nara dedicated to Kannon....

Honsenji Temple

Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan

Honsenji Temple (品川寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...

Hōrin-ji

Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Hōrin-ji is the only temple among the Shikoku 88 whose principal image is a Parinirvana Shaka Nyorai—Shakyamuni at the threshold of nirvana, lying on his side....

Horyuji

Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan

The pagoda and main hall of Hōryū-ji have stood for over 1,300 years—the oldest surviving wooden structures on earth....

Hōsen-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōsen-ji is the twenty-fourth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch that, until the mid-19th century, was a Shugendō...

Hōshō-ji

Ogano, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōshō-ji — Hannya-san Hōshō-ji — is the 32nd station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen mountain temple in Ogano set against a sandstone cliff....

Hotsumisaki-ji

Muroto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Hotsumisaki-ji, Temple 24 of the Shikoku 88, sits on the cliffs of Cape Muroto. Below, in the Mikurodō Cave, the young Kūkai is said to have completed the Kokūzō...

Houki-in Temple

Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Hōki-in is the Mt. Kōya sub-temple charged each year with carrying fresh monastic robes to Kōbō Daishi at the Okunoin mausoleum, where Kūkai is believed to remain in...

Hōun-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōun-ji — Zuiryū-san Hōun-ji — is the 30th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, founded in 1319 by the Kamakura Zen master Dōin (Dōon) of Kenchō-ji....

Ichihata-ji

Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan

Ichihata-ji (Ichibata Yakushi), the 26th station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, sits atop Mt. Ichihata above Lake Shinji....

Ichijō-ji

Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Ichijo-ji is station 26 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Hyogo dedicated to Shō Kannon....

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....

Ido-ji

Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Ido-ji, Temple 17 of the Shikoku 88, is named for a well Kūkai is said to have dug in a single night to bring clean water to a suffering village....

Ikaruga-dera

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Hyōgo Ikaruga-dera in Taishi-chō was founded by Prince Shōtoku in 606 CE on rice-paddy lands granted to him in Harima Province by Empress Suiko....

Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple

Ota City, Tokyo, Japan

Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple (日蓮宗 大本山 池上本門寺) is an active Nichiren Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Imakumano Kannon-ji

Part of Sennyū-ji

Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Imakumano Kannon-ji is station 15 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Kumano cult temple in Kyoto dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....

Imamiya-bō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Imamiya-bō, fourteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch on a site that was, for nearly a millennium, a single...

Ishite-ji

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 51 of the Shikoku henro is the legendary birthplace of the entire pilgrimage tradition....

Ishiteji Temple, Matsuyama

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

At Temple 51 of Japan's most famous pilgrimage, a stone preserved for twelve centuries tells of sin, remorse, and redemption....

Ishiyama-dera

Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Ishiyama-dera is station 13 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Heian aristocratic Kannon devotion temple in Shiga dedicated to Nyoirin Kannon....

Iwamoto-ji

Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Iwamoto-ji is the thirty-seventh stop on the Shikoku 88 and the only one enshrining five principal images simultaneously — Fudō Myōō, Shō Kannon, Amida Nyorai, Yakushi...

Iwanoue-dō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Iwanoue-dō is the twentieth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Rinzai Zen hall of the Nanzen-ji branch perched on a bluff above the Arakawa river....

Iwaya-ji

Kumakōgen, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Iwaya-ji is the forty-fifth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and a designated National Scenic Beauty....

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....

Iyo Kokubun-ji

Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Iyo Kokubun-ji is the 59th fudasho on the Shikoku 88 and one of the original kokubunji established in 741 by Emperor Shōmu's edict to protect the realm....

Jigen-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Jigen-ji, thirteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Sōtō Zen temple whose name — 'compassionate eyes' — is drawn from a verse of the Kannon Sutra....

Jikō-ji

Tokigawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Jikō-ji on Mount Toki, founded in tradition in 673 and as an institution in 770 CE, is one of the oldest Tendai mountain temples in the Kantō....

Jindaiji Temple

Jindaiji Motomachi, Tokyo, Japan

Jindaiji Temple (深大寺) is an active Tendai Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...

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....

Jion-ji

Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Jion-ji is the twelfth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage, founded by tradition in the early ninth century by Ennin and named for Daji'en-si in Tang Chang'an —...

Jizō-ji

Itano, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Jizō-ji is Temple 5 of the Shikoku 88, in Itano, Tokushima. Within the principal Enmei Jizō image is a smaller Shōgun Jizō said to be carved by Kūkai....

Jodo-ji

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Gokurakusan Jōdo-ji in Ono shelters two of the only Buddhist National Treasures in Hyōgo: the 1194 Jōdō-dō, a rare survival of Daibutsu-yō architecture, and Kaikei's...

Jōdo-ji

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 49 of the Shikoku henro stands in low hills south of Matsuyama, weathered and quiet beside its busier neighbours....

Jōdo-ji (Daijōritsu-in)

Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Jōdo-ji crowns a hill above the Onomichi waterway and serves as Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage station #9....

Jōraku-ji

Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Jōraku-ji is the only temple of the Shikoku 88 dedicated to Miroku Bosatsu, the future Buddha....

Jōraku-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Jōraku-ji, eleventh station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, was the route's only Tendai temple through the Edo period before fire and Meiji-era reform reshaped it....

Jōren-ji (Tokyo Daibutsu)

Itabashi City, Tokyo, Japan

Jōren-ji (Tokyo Daibutsu) (乗蓮寺) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Jōrin-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Jōrin-ji, seventeenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a small Sōtō Zen temple founded as an act of warrior repentance....

Jōruri-ji

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Jōruri-ji is the forty-sixth temple of the Shikoku pilgrimage and the first of eight in the Matsuyama cluster....

Jōsen-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Jōsen-ji is the third station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Saitama, Japan....

Jūraku-ji

Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Jūraku-ji is Temple 7 of the Shikoku 88, in Awa, Tokushima. The 'Temple of Ten Joys' offers two specialized intercessions: an eye-healing Jizō beside the Hondō and a row...

Kabusan-ji

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Kabusan-ji is a Tendai mountain temple in the hills north of Takatsuki, traditionally founded by En no Gyōja in 697 CE and held to be the place where Bishamonten was first...

Kagaku-ji

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Banshū Akō Taiunzan Kagaku-ji is the Asano clan's family temple in Akō, founded in 1645 and made permanent home of Akō's memorial culture by the 1701–1703 vendetta of the...