Shiofune Kannon-ji Temple 塩船観音寺
Temple with 20,000 azaleas of 20 varieties; entry 300¥ only during the flowering
Buddhist temple of legendary foundation, dated back to the Taika era (645–650). Its thousand-armed Kannon (千手観音立像), the main image, and the twenty-eight statues of its retinue (二十八部衆立像) were designated a national Important Cultural Property (重要文化財) in 2020. The number of azaleas, about twenty thousand of more than twenty varieties, comes from the temple leaflet quoted by a visit blog, not from an official page that can be pinned down in a single line.
Tokyo
Higashi-Ome, Kabe
