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  • Nagahama Betsuin Daitsuji Temple (Gobou-san)
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    4.0
    89 Reviews
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    Shiga Pref. Nagahamashi Motohamachou 32-9
    This is a temple of the Otani sect of Shinshu that has long been fondly known by the nickname of “Gobo-san”, whose origins lie in its establishment on the site of Nagahama Castle in 1602. Thereafter, it was moved to its current location in 1652. You can catch a glimpse of the splendid Momoyama culture in the main hall and the banquet hall which are said to be the remains of Fushimi castle and have been designated as National Important Cultural Properties. Within the temple grounds, there is also Ganzanken Japanese Garden, a kanshoshiki kare-sansui (“dry landscape”) garden, and there is also the Rantei Japanese Garden which is a National Place of Scenic Beauty. The temple is famous for having a great number of cultural properties such as paintings on paper sliding doors and screens.

    The main gate which took that of Higashihonganji as a model is very impressive. Although Nagahama is now a small town, we can understand it was once a very prosperous place. To enter the premises is...

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  • Kinomoto Jizoin Temple
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    4.0
    43 Reviews
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    Shiga Pref. Nagahamashi Kinomotochoukinomoto 944
    A Buddhist temple located in Kinomoto Kinomoto-cho, Nagahama City. The temple’s founding is said to date back to the Hakuho period (645–710), and temple records state that it was visited by such eminent figures as the great monk Kukai and shogun Ashikaga Takauji. The temple’s principal object of worship is known as the “Eye Buddha;” a hidden Buddha not normally made viewable to the public, a Kshitigarbha figure modeled after this statue stands on the grounds, with a frog with one eye closed called the “Stand-in Frogs” sitting at the figure’s feet.

    駐車場に車を停めて境内に入ると、大きな地蔵像の後ろ姿が見えて来ました。 平日のためか、参拝客の姿はほとんど無く、ひっそりとしていました。 眼の地蔵菩薩として、古くから信仰を集めているそうです。 人気店のつるやパンは、すぐそこです。

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  • Kogenji Temple (Doganji Temple Kannondo)
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    4.5
    18 Reviews
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    Shiga Pref. Nagahamashi Takatsukichoudouganji 50
    A Buddhist temple located in Doganji Takatsuki-cho, Nagahama City. The temple enshrines an eleven faced figure of the Kanzeon Bodhisattva; one of only seven in the country to be designated a National Treasure, this figure is famously considered particularly beautiful among the seven. Numerous other figures of Kanzeon Bodhisattva, housed in other Kannondo temple halls, can be found in the surrounding area, and during the Kannon no Sato Furusato Festival held in October, all of these halls make their figures viewable to the general public at the same time.

    The isthmus between Wakasa Bay and Ise Bay is the narrowest and, accordingly, the lowest part of Honshu Island. The Fukasaka Pass between Wakasa Bay and lake Biwa has only the altitude of 370 meters...

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  • Shakudoji Temple
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    4.5
    27 Reviews
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    Shiga Pref. Nagahamashi Kinomotochouishimichi 419
    A Buddhist temple located in Ishimichi Kinomoto-cho, Nagahama City. The temple’s principal object of worship, an 11 headed Kanzeon Bodhisattva, is recorded to have been made in the distant Heian period and has been designated a National Important Cultural Property. In October each year, the Kannon no Sato Furusato Festival is held, during which time area temples, including this one, all unveil their normally hidden statues of Kannon to the general public.

    間近に鑑賞することが出来ます。 カイトフック等に 唇の朱が残っていることの記述が多くありますが、それ以上に 衣等にも 彩色が残り 更に 右側の親指がわずかに上がり 一歩 今にも 踏み出す様子を見逃さないことお薦めします（堂内は 写真撮影禁止なので 写真にて 紹介出来ず）。 なお 近くにある[己高閣・世代閣]は 7月19日参拝時 新型コロナ感染予防の影響で 仏像の拝観不可となっておりました。

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  • Seiganji Temple
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
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    Shiga Pref. Maibarashi Maihara 669
    A Buddhist temple located in Maibara, Maibara City. The temple was originally founded as the Beisenji temple by Sasaki Doyo, military commissioner of Omi, in the distant Nanboku-cho period. The temple’s rock garden is a designated National Place of Scenic Beauty and, with a reservation made at least five days in advances, visitors can enjoy a special Japanese Buddhist vegetarian meal while taking in a view of the garden.

    米原市の太尾山（ふとおやま）西麓にある曹洞宗の禅刹です。 南北朝時代に、近江国の守護・京極氏が建てたお寺をルーツとしています。 兵火により焼失した際に、難を逃れた本尊の聖観音像が、長い年月を経たまま古びた小堂に祀られている様子を、遊行中の彦根大雲寺の僧侶が哀れみ、青岸寺として再興したと伝えられ、寺名は再興に尽力した敦賀人の謚に因んでいます。 湖東（琵琶湖の東部）エリアに点在する近江七福神霊場札所の...

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  • Ohara Kannon-ji Temple
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    4.0
    6 Reviews
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    Shiga Maibara-shi Asahi 1342
    A 10-minute drive from the Nagahama Interchange on the Hokuriku Expressway. This temple was once a Hosso Buddhist temple and one of the four great Gokokuji (temple dedicated to protecting the country) on Mt. Ibuki alongside the Yatakaji Temple, Taiehiji Temple, and Nagaoji Temple, but in 1383 it became a Tendai Buddhist temple. The temple is believed to be the place where future samurai and military commander Ishida Mitsunari and mighty samurai lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi met; according to legend, Ishida, who was then a young monk, was discovered by Toyotomi, who had come to the area to enjoy falconry, after the boy served the lord three cups of tea with exquisite hospitality. The temple's wooden statue depicting the great monk Dengyo Daishi in a seated position dates to the distant Kamakura period and has been designated a National Important Cultural Property.

    惣門から長い参道で、途中に塔頭、本坊を見ながら本堂にたどり着きます。本堂は重要文化財で、1716年(正徳6年）の建立で、地元の大工宮部太兵衛が棟梁をつとめた。彫刻が素敵でした。鐘楼も重要文化財で、江戸中期の1725年(享保10年)建立、桁行一間、梁間一間、入母屋造、桟瓦葺です。

  • Rengeji Temple
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    3.5
    6 Reviews
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    Shiga Pref. Maibarashi Bamba 511
    A Buddhist temple located in Bamba, Maibara City. Banba was once a post station town which was named as the hometown of Chutaro, a character appears in the play “Mabuta no haha” by Shin Hasegawa, and a Jizo statue modeled after the character stands on the grounds of the temple. The temple is also known for its beautiful cherry tree and Rhododendron dilatatum blossoms in April.

    滋賀県米原市にある古刹。南北朝時代の古戦場になった場所で、北条仲時とその家臣の供養墓があります。また、番場の忠太郎を祀った忠太郎地藏も寺の裏手にありました。本堂内には宝物庫があり南北朝時代の槍などが展示してありました。

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  • Seiryuji Tokugenin Temple
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
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    Shiga Pref. Maibarashi Kiyotaki 288
    A Buddhist temple located in Kiyotaki, Maibara City. The family temple of the northern Omi Kyogoku clan, in the Edo period Kyogoku Takatoyo gathered generations of family graves at one location here to create a family cemetery, marking it by building a three-tier pagoda. Today, this pagoda is a designated National Historic Site. The temple is also famous for its fall foliage in autumn and, in spring, the blossoms of its “Doyo” zakura cherry trees.

    We learned about this temple before we left home and had decided we wanted to visit it. It is an easy train ride to Maibara from Nagahama where we were staying. Then we transferred trains for a...

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  • Gomura Betsuin Temple
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    Shiga Pref. Nagahamashi Gomura 150
    A Buddhist temple situated along Prefectural Route 263 in Gomura, Nagahama City. The temple got its start as a dojo opened by Kyonyo, 12th head of the Higashi Honganji Temple, on landed donated by a local man of importance some 400 years ago. Alongside the Daitsu-ji Temple, the temple played a central role in the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist faith in the norther Lake Biwa area.
  • Ioji Temple
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    Shiga Pref. Nagahamashi Kinomotochouomi
    A priest-less Buddhist temple situated along the Takatoki River valley in Omi Kinomoto-cho, Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture. The temple’s principal object of worship is an 11 headed Kanzeon Bodhisattva. Crafted from camphorwood, it has been designated a National Important Cultural Property. In Yasushi Inoue’s novel “Hoshi to Matsuri,” it is described as a handsome and flowing statute nicknamed the “Village Maiden Kannon.”
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  • Kanzanji Temple
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    Shiga Pref. Nagahamashi Yogochousakaguchi
    A Buddhist temple located in Sakaguchi Yogo-cho, Nagahama City. The temple was founded in 764 as the Ryutozan Daikiji on the order of Empress Koken. The temple is also known as the place where the famous scholar, Sugawara no Michizane, trained for five years during his youth, and the temple was renamed and given its current official title as the Taikisan Kanzanji when Michizane re-joined the temple at the age of 45. Today, the temple is priest-less, but its buildings and garden are preserved and temple treasures such as its Buddhist statues are preserved in the Kozenkan near the entrance to the approach to the temple.
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  • Reisuiji Temple Tainai Buddha Museum
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    Shiga Pref. Nagahamashi Takatsukichoune
    A museum located in Une Takatsuki-cho, Nagahama City. The self-described “tiniest museum in the world,” the museum’s exhibition space is just 9.93 square meters in size and contains informational panels on the Reisui Temple’s principal object of worship, a seated, 11 headed Kanzeon Bodhisattva created in the Edo period as a “sheath Buddha” statue to encapsulate a smaller “tainai (‘interior’) Buddha” statue which escaped being destroyed by fire during the Battle of Shizugatake.
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  • Nishino Yakushido
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    Shiga Nagahama-shi Takatsukicho Nishino
    This Jodo Shinshu Buddhist temple is dedicated to Bhaisajyaguru, the Healing Buddha. The temple is said to have once been a Tendai temple called the Senmyoji in Terayama, the northwest of Nishino which was patronized as the family temple of Nishino Tanbanokami Iezumi, the descendants of Prince Otomo-no-Miko. The temple enshrines an 11-faced standing statue of Kannon and a statue of Bhaisajyaguru, both said to have been made in the Heian period and designated Important Cultural Properties. A reservation must be made by phone at least two days in advance to view the statues. During the temple's Kannon Festival held each year in summer, the doors to the temple enshrining the statue of Bhaisajyaguru and those of one other temple are opened.
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  • Yataka Gokokuji Shitchiin Temple
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    Shiga Maibara-shi Ueno 1
    A 25-minute drive from the Maibara Interchange on the Hokuriku Expressway. Situated halfway up Mt. Ibuki, this Buddhist temple is said to have been the main temple complex of the Yatakaji Temple, counted as one of the four great Gokokuji (temple dedicated to protecting the country) on Mt. Ibuki. In addition to the main temple building, temple kitchen, belfry, and main temple gate, the temple has an elegant garden visitors can enjoy and take in the beautiful seasonal sights of double-flowered cherries in spring, hydrangea and fresh verdure in summer, fall foliage in autumn, and white snowscapes in winter. The temple is also the 48th temple on the Lake Biwa 108 Sacred Sites Pilgrimage, and is also one of the sites of the Omi no Kuni Biwako Seven Gods of Fortune Pilgrimage. Many people come here to view temple treasures such as a magnificent statue depicting an eleven-faced, thousand-armed Kannon.
  • Hogonji Temple
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
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    Shiga Nagahama-shi Hayazakicho 1664

    本堂の弁才天堂を参拝した後、更に石段を上がった場所に朱塗りの三重塔が立っていました。少し色褪せつつありましたが朱塗りの外観が目立っており、これは港の桟橋付近からも見て取る事が出来ました。

  • Chizenin Temple
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    3.5
    8 Reviews
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    Shiga Nagahama-shi Motohamacho 29-10

    秀吉公が長浜に築城した時に小谷城下から移ってきました。市指定文化財で長浜城の搦手に利用されていたと言われる山門から入ります。説明書では国の重要文化財でもある十一面観音座像が本尊です。境内も広く、小さいお堂もいくつか在りました。

  • Kohoan
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    4.5
    6 Reviews
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    Shiga Nagahama-shi Uwanocho 135

    昨年保紅葉を、今年の春は梅の花を見に行きました。まだそれほど観光地化されていないので、静かに見学できます。庵の中にある襖絵も見事でした。

  • Sojiji Temple
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    3.5
    4 Reviews
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    Shiga Nagahama-shi Miyashicho

    牡丹の寺で有名な総持寺。丁度牡丹が満開の時期に訪れました。紅、白、紫、黄色など色とりどりに咲き誇った様は見事でした。

  • Daigoji Temple
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    Shiga Nagahama-shi Daigocho 205
  • Zengyoji Temple
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    3.0
    4 Reviews
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    Shiga Maibara-shi Maibara 736

    米原駅から徒歩5-6分です。お寺には説明書などがなく、また山門なども有りません。寺院名は道筋と仏壇屋さんの看板で分かるような寺院です。

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