The Konjikidō of 1124, entirely covered in gold, has stood inside a glass case since 1965.
You climb the cryptomeria avenue up to Kanzan hill, where the temple (founded in 1105 by Fujiwara no Kiyohira and once forty buildings strong) keeps the Konjikidō, the only survivor: clad in gold and mother-of-pearl, it holds the mummies of three generations of the Northern Fujiwara inside a climate-controlled case. Since 2011 it has been part of the Hiraizumi UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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.
ℹ️ Open all year, 8:30–17:00 (16:30 from early November to the end of February). Admission 1,000¥ (Konjikidō, Sankōzō, Kyōzō, old Fukutei); combined ticket with the exhibition of secret images 1,600¥. Bus from JR Hiraizumi Station.
🚉 Hiraizumi · 26 min walk
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