Sufukuji Temple Ruins

A 15-minute drive from the Kyoto-higashi Interchange, and a 20-minute walk from Shigasato Station on the Keihan Electric Railway. This is the site of a Buddhist temple records state Emperor Tenji had built amidst the mountains northwest of the palace in 668, the year after the capital was moved to Otsukyo. Traces of the temple were identified in an excavation conducted in 1928 and the site has gathered attention as a possible clue to the exact location of Otsukyo, which is as yet still unclear. Today, visitors can see a stone monument and foundation stones at the site and imagine what it might have once looked like. Artefacts now designated National Treasures were discovered under the foundation stones of a temple tower at the site.