Best Temples Spot List

The oldest Buddhist temple in Tokyo best known by the Kaminarimon Gate is one of the must-visit places in Tokyo. On Nakamise Street, you can enjoy souvenir shopping and snack-joint hopping.

Shingon Sect Temple in Setagaya, Tokyo. Tamagawa 88 Sacred Sites. Kanto Sacred Site consisting of temples for 33 Bokefuji Kannon Pilgrimage.

The nation’s head Koyasan Shingon-shu temple

Happiness arrives with the buzzing of bell crickets

This imposing temple serves as a center for Shugendo asceticism

The mountain villa of Minamoto no Toru, the model for Hikaru Genji

Check out the ”Sento Kuyo” ceremony on summer nights

The head temple of the Jodo sect, founded at the place where Honen Shonin passed away. The magnificent monastery was built under the wing of the Tokugawa family.

Famous for its tea room, ”Hasso-no-seki”

The resting place of the Tsugaru family

The head temple of the Shingon Sect's Omuro School. Holding a long association with the Imperial Household, the temple is also well known for its late-blooming cherry trees called Omuro-zakura.

Several hundred structures are scattered across Mt. Hiei

The Matsuchiyama Shoden Honryu-in Temple close to Senso-ji Temple, is recognized as a ”power spot” by the common people. On this spot they pray for the material benefits in this world. With Y-shaped daikon radishes and kinchaku (Japanese traditional style pouch) people pray for finding a suitable marriage partner and for matrimonial happiness.

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

A temple associated with Heian-era poet Ariwara no Narihara

Famous for a painted fusuma from Tohaku Hasegawa

Tie your prayers under the branches of the willow trees

Classical Zen Buddhist temple with gardens designed by Muso Kokushi. Enjoy the maple trees and seasonal flowers.

A spiritual area surrounding Kobo Daishi’s mausoleum

The abbot’s chambers are surrounded by four gardens