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Ryōzen Kannon

Ryōzen Kannon

Andrew Kehoe

The Ryozen Kannon is located in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto, a short walk from Kyoumizudera.

Kyoto
Gozan no Okuribi (Mountain Bonfire) 2024

Gozan no Okuribi (Mountain Bonfire) 2024

Mid Aug

The event places emphasis on setting giant bonfires on each of the five mountains that surround Kyoto city; meant to guide the souls of ancestors who returned

Kyoto
A Visit to Koyasan: Kongobuji

A Visit to Koyasan: Kongobuji

Su Stori

There are 117 temples in Mount Koya, but the broader image is that they... emerge from a sea of clouds and that have the role of protecting the temple

Wakayama
Momoyama Park

Momoyama Park

Justin Dart

Momoyama is a park featuring a children’s science museum, great playground and shrine for fertility.

Gifu
Oyama Jinja

Oyama Jinja

Kerrie Hankinson

in Shugendō, the mountain religion of Japan, and at one time had seven shrines... and 24 temples spread from Iwakuraji to Oyama[1].

Toyama 3
Iiyama's Ajisai-dera

Iiyama's Ajisai-dera

Robert Grey

One such treasure is Iiyama's so-called "Ajisai-dera", a small, mountainside Buddhist temple boasting hundreds of hydrangea flowers.

Nagano