Eighty thousand tsubo of mountain, and victory daruma are placed everywhere.
You go up into the mountain by bus and then walk: the grounds cover about eighty thousand tsubo and rise in terraces. Those who got what they asked for bring their daruma back and leave it there, so the red figures sit on low walls, in niches, among the roots, in their thousands. It is the twenty-third stop on the Saigoku pilgrimage of the thirty-three temples.
Mountain temple in the municipality of Minoh, venerated for about thirteen hundred years, specialising in prayers for victory, in the sense of succeeding in a trial, an exam, a competition, a recovery. Hence the victory daruma that visitors take away with them and later bring back.
ℹ️ Open 8:00–17:00 on weekdays and Sundays, until 18:00 on Saturdays, with last entry half an hour before; during evening illumination periods it stays open until 20:30. Tickets cost 500 yen for adults and high school students, 400 for elementary and junior high students, 100 for younger children. You get there by bus from Minoh-Kayano Station on the Kita-Osaka Kyūkō, about twenty minutes, or by taxi in a quarter of an hour.
🚉 勝尾寺 · 3 min walk
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