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Saigoku Kannon

Kyoto Prefecture 

Kiyomizu-dera Temple: Kyoto’s Most Famous Temple

November 17, 2022February 14, 2023 KansaiOdyssey Japanese National Treasures, Saigoku Kannon, Kyoto City

It seems that Kyoto has more temples in it than any other city in Japan. So many in fact that

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Kyoto Prefecture 

Rokuharamitsu-ji Temple: Kyoto’s Best Treaures

September 20, 2022April 2, 2023 KansaiOdyssey Saigoku Kannon, Temples

In cental Kyoto City is the 17th temple of  Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, Rokuharamitsu-ji. Though it is a rather small temple,

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Nara Prefecture 

Tsubosaka-dera Temple: The Temple of Sight

August 30, 2022March 19, 2023 KansaiOdyssey Saigoku Kannon, Temples

Tsubosaka-dera Temple, also known as Minami-Hokke-ji Temple, is one of the 33 temples of the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage.  Although it

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Hyogo Prefecture 

Banshu Kiyomizu Temple: Temple of Sacred Water

May 20, 2022January 30, 2023 KansaiOdyssey Temples, Saigoku Kannon

On the top of Mt Mitake,  just on the border of Tamba (north Kyoto) and Banshu (Hyogo Prefecture), rests Banshu

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Shiga Prefecture 

Kannonsho-ji Temple and the Mermaid’s Plea

September 27, 2020February 18, 2021 KansaiOdyssey Saigoku Kannon, Temples

While the town of Azuchi is most famous for Azuchi Castle, one of Oda Nobunaga’s most impressive fortresses, nearby Kannosho-ji

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Hyogo Prefecture 

Ichijo-ji Temple, Home to Hyogo’s Oldest Pagoda

August 10, 2020February 18, 2021 KansaiOdyssey Temples, Japanese National Treasures, Saigoku Kannon

While for many people in Kansai, the name Ichijo-ji is the name of a popular ramen district in Kyoto, however

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Kyoto Prefecture 

Matsunoodera and the Horse-head Deity

March 13, 2020July 22, 2020 KansaiOdyssey Saigoku Kannon, Amanohashidate, Temples

The city of Maizuru sits at the northern most part of the Kansai region. On the eastern boarder of this

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