Suggestions for Buddhist Temple near Yokohama

hello_emily • February 21, 2016Definitely take the ocean view path - spectacular. Vegetable buns also a great snack 🌊 & check out the cave!

Stefan M. • August 6, 2014Was lucky enough to spend a night here. Great place to escape the hectic Tokyo and enjoy nature and the temples.

𝙻𝚒𝚕𝚒á𝚗𝚊 ✨ • November 7, 2019Favourite zen garden with temple and bamboo grove - the zen garden is free but to enter the bamboo grove you have to pay entrance! Absolutely amazing place!

Alessandro M. • April 5, 2015Oldest Zen monastery in Japan. Must go if you meditated at least once in your life :D

きっちゃん。　ASD @. • August 21, 2016拝観料金200円。　運慶作と言われる閻魔大王は、どことなく哀愁があって、すっかりファンになりました。　寺内部は、撮影禁止です。

John P. • October 3, 2014Beautiful grounds and not as crowded as some of the other temples. Contains the tomb of the founder of Kencho-ji Temple.

まちゃる • April 3, 2015江ノ島近くのお寺です。春には桜が満開ですよ！

Hiroto O. • June 22, 2015The whole area around this temple is known as the Hikigayatsu Valley and was the site of the mansion of a senior vassal of Minamoto Yoritomo,Hiki Yoshikazu and his clan. Hiki clan was destroyed en....

しろひな ω. • May 17, 2018しいちゃん🐱には、会えましたか？

Hiroto O. • June 22, 2015As the family temple of the head of the representatives of Kanto region of the Muromachi Shogunate, this temple is one of the 10 most important temples in the Kanto region, second only to the Kam.....

Torzin S • October 14, 2018The statue inside is beautiful, maybe the best icon of Kamakura

Hiroto O. • June 22, 2015This temple is the third highest ranked among Kamakura’s five principle temples of Zen sect, and was founded the year after Minamto Yoshitomo’s death when his widow Hojo Masako invited Myo-an Eis.....

Hiroto O. • June 22, 2015Komyoj,which is located in Zaimokuza, is a prestigious temple, Having been ranked as the number one temple among the Kanto Juhachi Danrin Jodo sect temples during the Edo era. Kishu Zenji Nen.......

c.c.305 • July 26, 2011Try their tea ceremony at KISEN-AN. Really worth having Green tea as seeing a beautiful quiet Japanese rock garden; "KARE-SAN-SUI" and listening to the song of Uguisu !! It only costs 500 Yen !

Hiroto O. • June 22, 2015Jochi-ji Temple is ranked fourth among Kamakura’s Five Great Zen Temples, and its temple ground, surrounded by rich green vegetation, is designated as a national historical site. At th.....

Torzin S • October 14, 2018Apart from the Daibutsu, this temple is very uninteresting

Nao • April 24, 2022自由に建物に上がって本尊・釈迦牟尼坐像をお参りしたり、廊下から外の美しい庭園を眺めることができます。(法要等の行事がある場合を除く) 写真撮影もOK。

Hiroto O. • June 22, 2015When the great Buddhist priest Nichiren was exiled to Sado island for his Rissho Ankoku treatise and other offenses, his disciple, the Buddhist priest Nichiro, a vassal of Hojo Tokiyori, was loc......

Hiroto O. • June 22, 2015The temple was founded by Priest Ryokanbo Ninsho. He leaned Buddhist discipline under the supervision of Priest Eison of Nara Saidaiji. In 1262, he was invited by Naritoki Hoj.....

Hiroto O. • June 22, 2015Originally this temple’s name was written using different Chinese characters, but it is said the name was changed to the current version after Minamoto Yoritomo held a battle strategy meet.....

Tomomi K. • June 13, 2015他の方も書かれていますが、2018年まで紫陽花を楽しむことができません。as others mentioned, until 2018 we can't see hydrangeas, specialty for here, because of transplanting them.

ysbay98 m. • May 25, 2014お寺の真ん前が踏切なのでご注意。拝観時間は17時まででした。残念。

Hiroto O. • June 22, 2015In 1218, second regent Hojo Yoshitoki built a temple here called Yakushido, after receiving a divine message from the god Inushinsho. Later, the ninth regent, Hojo Sadatoki convert......

Magdalena M. • October 11, 2017Entrance fee is 300yen but definitely worth it - bamboo forest, cave, and several temple buildings are really impressive

Hiroto O. • June 22, 2015It is a temple that stands along the road.You can also pray inside the temple.....

Jo • May 19, 2019Beautiful little treasure - it’s amazing how suddenly it gets quiet around you. If your lucky, you can smell the forest really intensely up there! Unfortunately there was little to see on top of that.

icemac • October 8, 2011神奈川県で唯一の国宝建造物。正続院の奥にあり、非公開の為、屋根だけを望み見る事が出来ます。正月三が日には特別一般公開されます。

Jun U. • June 18, 2018Hyper crowded by the people much more than the hydrangea. Recommend 後庭園。

yuzuki • July 12, 2017庭園に入って一番に目につく泰山木は、白木蓮と共になんと魯迅が佛日庵に寄贈したもの。拝観料は100円ですが、支払い時に500円を追加すると御抹茶も戴けます。(もちろん、円覚寺の拝観料とは別です。)御抹茶には鳩サブレーでお馴染み豊島屋さんの鳩落雁が付いてきます。夏の時期にはほんのり甘い冷抹茶がオススメです。