Nikkō-zan Rinnō-ji (日光山輪王寺) 日光山輪王寺
The gilded Buddha reaches 7.56 m: the temple (1647) is the largest wooden building in the east.
Rinnō-ji is the Buddhist temple that, together with the Tōshōgū and Futarasan-jinja, makes up the UNESCO site of the shrines and temples of Nikkō (1999). Its history as a religious centre predates that of the Tōshōgū by centuries: tradition traces it back to the opening of Mount Nikkō by the monk Shōdō in 766, and the Sanbutsudō was moved to where it stands today only in 1871, with the forced separation of temples and shrines in the Meiji era.
Tochigi
Yasukawacho, Yasukawacho, Shinkyo
