Nishiarai Daishi 西新井大師總持寺（五智山遍照院總持寺）
Home to one of the 6 surviving sazae-dō (spiral pagodas) in Japan, from 1834.
A temple of the shingon-shū, founded according to tradition in 826, one of the ‘three great daishi of Kantō’ for exorcism. The 三匝堂, built in 1834 (天保5年) and restored in 1884, has been a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (足立区登録有形文化財) of the municipality of Adachi since 10 December 1982. The peony garden, with about a hundred varieties, blooms between mid-April and early May according to a blog specialising in flowers; in early July the temple hosts the 風鈴祭り, a fair of wind chimes from all over Japan (exact date not published on the official site).
Tokyo
Daishimae, Nishiarai
