11 Sights in Otsu, Japan (with Map and Images)

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Explore interesting sights in Otsu, Japan. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 11 sights are available in Otsu, Japan.

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1. Iwama-dera Temple

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Shohoji Temple is a temple of the Shingon sect of the Daigo sect located in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Iwama. The honzon is the thousand-handed Kansei Yin Bodhisattva. The opening of the mountain is Taicho, which opened the Hakusan Mountain in Kaga Province. Another name is Iwama-ji. The 12th temple of the 33rd place in the West Country. Honzon mantra: On, Bazara, Tarama, Kiriku, Sowaka  Chanting: Mizukami (Minakami) is Izukuru Ran Iwama Temple The waves beating on the shore are the sound of the pine wind

Wikipedia: 正法寺 (大津市) (JA), Website

2. 立木山寺

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Anyoji Temple is a temple of the Pure Land sect located in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Tateki. The main Buddha is the Bodhisattva of Saint Kanseon. It is known by the common name of "Tachiki Kannon" and is also known locally as "Tachiki-san". It is known as the temple of protection from evil because it was opened by Kobo Daishi in the year of his 42nd year. As the 20th temple of the 33 places in the New West Country, it is also called Tachikisanji. It is located in the Lake Biwa Quasi-National Park area.

Wikipedia: 安養寺 (大津市石山南郷町) (JA)

3. 三井寺(園城寺)

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三井寺(園城寺)

Nagara-san Onjo-ji , also known as just Onjo-ji, or Mii-dera (三井寺), is a Buddhist temple in Japan located at the foot of Mount Hiei, in the city of Ōtsu in Shiga Prefecture. It is a short distance from both Kyoto, and Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake. The head temple of the Jimon sect of Tendai, it is a sister temple to Enryaku-ji, at the top of the mountain, and is one of the four largest temples in Japan. Altogether, there are 40 named buildings in the Mii-dera complex.

Wikipedia: Mii-dera (EN)

4. 近江国庁跡

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近江国庁跡

The Ōmi Provincial Capital ruins is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Nara to Heian period government administrative complex located in what is now the Ōe neighborhood of the city of Ōtsu, Shiga prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. Identified as the ruins of the kokufu of Ōmi Province, the site has protected as a National Historic Site from 1973.

Wikipedia: Ōmi Kokuchō (EN)

5. Gichu-ji

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Gichu-ji KENPEI / CC BY-SA 3.0

Gichū-ji (義仲寺) is a Tendai Buddhist temple in the Baba neighborhood of the city of Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Its honzon is a statue of Shō-Kannon Bosatsu. It contains the grave of the late Heian period warlord Kiso Yoshinaka and the Edo period poet Matsuo Basho. Its precincts were designated a National Historic Site in 1967.

Wikipedia: Gichū-ji (EN)

6. 本要寺

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Honjiji is a temple of the Nichiren sect in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture. The mountains are Renkozan. Former Motoyama is Omotoyama Motokuniji (Rokujo Gate). The law is the lawye law (Daminomoto Motoyama Higashiyama Nijo Myodenji). Current priest 35th Central Paper Kenaka (Kaijin -in Nissho)

Wikipedia: 本要寺 (大津市) (JA)

7. 浮御堂

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Mangetsuji Ukimido is a Buddhist temple that protrudes on the lake at Mototanda, Otsu -shi, Shiga, and at the Rinzai sect Dautokuji faction Kaiyama Manchu -ji Temple on the shores of Lake Biwa. It is famous for the Omi Hakkei "Katata Rakugan". It is also known as Katata's Ukimido.

Wikipedia: 満月寺浮御堂 (JA)

8. 唐崎神社

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Karasaki Shrine is a shrine located in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the companies of Hiyoshi Taisha. Located on the western shore of Lake Biwa, the precincts are designated as a designated scenic spot in Shiga Prefecture.

Wikipedia: 唐崎神社 (JA)

9. 水観寺

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水観寺 KENPEI / CC BY-SA 3.0

Suikanji Temple is a temple of the Tendaiji Monshu sect located in Sonojoji-cho, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture. A separate place of Sohonzan Enjoji Temple. The name of the mountain is Chodosan Mountain. The honzon is Yakushi Rurimitsu Nyorai.

Wikipedia: 水観寺 (JA)

10. 那波加神社

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那波加神社Saigen Jiro / パブリック・ドメイン

Nahaka Shrine is a shrine located in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is a Shikiuchi company, and the former company name is a prefectural company. The divine crests are "deer carrying seedlings", "three-way deer", and "embrace".

Wikipedia: 那波加神社 (JA)

11. 微妙寺

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微妙寺

Subtle Temple (びみょうじ)は、賀県大津市園城寺町にある天台寺門宗の寺。 総本山園城寺の別所。 Mt. Yama No. は長 and other mountains. 本figureはeleven face 観音。

Wikipedia: 微妙寺 (JA)

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