Tsukiji Honganji Information, Map and Access

A temple of Jodo Shinshu Honganji school that is loved by people in Kanto as “Tsukiji Honganji san”.

About Tsukiji Honganji

The birthplace of Tsukiji Hongan-ji Temple was erected in 1617 as a separate house in Kyoto and Nishi Hongan-ji Temple by the associate of the 12th-generation sect.

At that time, it was called “Edo Asakusa Gobo” because it was in Yokoyama town near Asakusa, but in 1657 it was destroyed by the historically famous Furisode fire.

However, due to the land readjustment of the Shogunate after the Great Fire, reconstruction to the old site was not permitted, and it was the sea at Hatchobori as the substitute site.

There, a group student from Kashiwajima was at the center, reclaimed the sea to rebuild the main hall, built the land, and rebuilt it in 1679.

It came to be called “Tsukiji Gobo”. After that, in the reconstruction of the main hall that collapsed in the Great Kanto Earthquake, it was built in 1931 with an appearance resembling an ancient Indian style designed by Dr. Chuo Ito, a professor of engineering at Tokyo (Empire) University It has been reached.

The interior of the novel and sharp main hall building is the solemnity of the traditional Shinso temple.

Map and Access

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