Best Temples Spot List

Famous for its connection to Honen and it’s beauty in autumn

Hasedera or the Hasedera Temple is an old temple with a view of the ocean and the town of Hase in Kamakura. Various flowers bloom in the garden from season to season. Its principal image of worship is one of the largest wooden statues in Japan.

A Tendai sect temple with the magnificent natural monument, Yoryu no Matsu

Known for “the evening bell of Mii-dera”, one of the Eight Views of Omi

Worshipers are charmed by the many flowers and large Kannon statue

Nara's symbol, the world's largest bronze statue of Rushana Daibutsu is seated in the Great Buddha Hall located in the vast grounds. The temple has been designated as a World Heritage site.

Himeji’s famous mountain-top temple

The Naritasan Shinshoji Temple has attracted many worshipers for more than 1,000 years. There are many assets designated as an Important Cultural Properties on its vast temple grounds.

The roads are covered with colorful leaves in autumn

This large temple complex boasts a magnificent ancient hall

This temple is one of the Three Mountains of the Kanto region for the Chisan sect of Shingon Buddhism and is well-known as a temple to ward off evil. Enjoy the shops in the surrounding streets after attending a Goma Rite (a ceremony in which Goma wood is burned in a fireplace on the Goma platform).

Zojo-ji is one of the seven Daihonzan (head temples) of Jodo-shu Buddhism and contains many designated Cultural Properties. It is also where the souls of the Tokugawa clan are mourned.

A soto-zen Buddhist temple, better known as Toyokawa Inari, which had been worshiped by both the mighty warriors of each era and common people of Edo-Tokyo. You can make a pilgrimage to the seven lucky gods and enjoy viewing lit paper lanterns.

A temple with strings of ”monkey charms”

Two different windows overlooking a garden

The Osawa-no-ike Pond is famous for its cherry blossoms and moon-viewing pavilion

The resting place of the Tsugaru family

Enjoy the burning red foliage in autumn and the cherry blossoms and rhododendrons in spring

One of the Monzeki temples of the Tendai sect that enshrines the National Treasure Amida Sanzon (Amida Triad) statue in eternal tranquility.

Fallen leaves on the road to the temple invite you to this high-status monzeki temple