［Leaf KYOTO: Prepare your mind with sutra chanting at Kanchiin, a pagoda temple located in Toji Temple.

Leaf KYOTO Store Locations ［The Kanchi-in Temple, a pagoda located in the To-ji Temple complex, offers sutra chanting to help you prepare your mind for the next stage of your journey.

2024.3.18

［The Kanchi-in Temple, a pagoda located in the To-ji Temple complex, offers sutra chanting to help you prepare your mind for the next stage of your journey.

Kanchi-in Temple, founded in 1359, is a pagoda temple located within To-ji Temple. There are many highlights, such as the Kyakuden (guest hall) with an eagle painted by Miyamoto Musashi when he hid himself, and the only statue of Godai Kokuzo Bodhisattva seated on a bird and beast in Japan.

A scroll of 262-character Heart Sutra and a copy of the sutra to write your wish are available for 1000 yen. Short version is available for 500 yen.

The sound of shishi-odoshi (traditional Japanese lute-like instrument) is so beautiful in the tea ceremony room, Kaede-senkan, which was enjoyed by the Ashikaga and other warriors in the Muromachi period (1336-1573).

One word mikuji (fortune) for 200 yen to be drawn in front of Aizenmyoo next to the Five Great Ku Ku Kuurazo Bodhisattva Statue. It contains a short commentary and a word of encouragement for those who draw it.

In 2023, a garden for chief priests was created to commemorate the 1200th anniversary of the founding of the Rikkyo sect of Shingon Buddhism. Visitors can sit on the porch and enjoy the view of the five-story pagoda soaring above the landscape, where the expanse of wisdom is expressed in lines of Shirakawa gravel.

Kanchiin temple

government official (esp. one of low to medium rank)
403 Kujo-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
4-minute walk from the bus stop "Toji Higashimon-mae"
11 minute walk from Kintetsu Toji Station
Tel. 075-662-0173 (Toji Temple Worship Department)
9:00 - 17:00 (sutra copying available at 15:00, visitation available at 16:30)
7 days a week
Entrance fee: Adults: 500 yen, Elementary and junior high school students: 300 yen
Parking available (Toji Temple parking lot, except 21st)
https://toji.or.jp/guide/kanchiin/
PHOTO/Katsunori Hatanaka, TEXT/Yurie Sugisaki

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