Toji 東寺

Its five-storey pagoda, 54.8 metres tall, is the tallest wooden tower in Japan.

Founded in 796 as one of the two official temples set to guard the entrance to the new capital Heian-kyō (ancient Kyoto): Tōji, ‘temple of the east’, had a twin to the west that has not survived. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994 as part of the ‘Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto’.

Kyoto

Kujo, Toji, Kyoto

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