Zuiryū-ji

photo by そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0

photo by そらみみ · CC BY-SA 4.0

Gate, Buddha hall and Dharma hall: three National Treasures together since 1997.

The third lord, Maeda Toshitsune, had it built as a place of funerary worship for his elder brother Toshinaga, who had founded Takaoka and died there: the work lasted twenty years, from the beginning of the Shōhō era until 1663. On 3 December 1997 the gate, the Buddha hall and the Dharma hall became National Treasures as a single group of early seventeenth-century Zen architecture; five other structures in the complex are Important Cultural Properties.

Temple of the Sōtō school of Zen in Tak⁠aoka, built as a place of funerary worship (菩提寺) for Maeda Toshinaga, the founder of the city. It is the most important Buddhist temple in Toyama Prefecture.

ℹ️ Open 9:00–16:30 (closing at 16:00 from 10 December to 31 January), last entry 30 minutes before closing. Tickets: adults 500 yen, junior high/high school students 200 yen, children 100 yen. Source: the temple's official website.

🚉 Takaoka · 14 min walk

Sources: zuiryuji.jp · takaoka.or.jp

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