Chūson-ji (中尊寺) 中尊寺
The Konjikidō of 1124, entirely covered in gold, has stood inside a glass case since 1965.
A temple of the Tendai school founded in 1105 by Fujiwara no Kiyohira on Kanzan hill in Hiraizumi, capital of the Northern Fujiwara between the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Today the Sankōzō holds more than three thousand of the temple's National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties.
Iwate
Hiraizumi