9 Sights in Yamatokoriyama, Japan (with Map and Images)

Yada-ji Temple is a temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect located in Yada-cho, Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Yada. The honzon is Jizo Bodhisattva. The official name is Kongosan Temple. Also known as the "Hydrangea Temple", there are about 10,000 plants and about 60 species of hydrangeas planted in the temple grounds.

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Jikoin is a temple of the Daitokuji sect of the Rinzai sect located in Koizumi Town, Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is Mt. Entsu. The main Buddha is Buddha. It was founded by the founder of the Seokshu-ryu tea ceremony, the lord of the Koizumi clan, Katagiri Ishimimori Sadamasa (Ishishu).

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Matsuo-ji Temple (松尾寺, Matsuo-dera) is a temple of the Shingon sect of the Daigo sect located in Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is Mt. Matsuo or Mt. Aida Rakuyama (Fudaraku Mr./Ms.). The honzon is a thousand-handed, thousand-eyed, Kanseion Bodhisattva. Kaiki (the founder) is said to be Prince Tonerishinnou. It is called "Japan's oldest temple to ward off evil" and is crowded with many pilgrims on the first day of February and March. There is a rose garden in the temple grounds, and it is also known as a famous place for roses. The name of the temple is also called "Matsu no Dera" or "Matsu no Mr./Ms.". There is also spring water in the temple grounds.

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Yada Zakushi Tamahiko Shrine (Yatani Zakushi Tamahiko Shrine) is a Shikiuchi shrine located in Yada Town, Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Shikinai Taisha is the first shrine of the Yamato Province Juza listed in the Enki Shikishin Name Book. The former company status is a prefectural company (upgraded from a township company in October 13).

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Kōriyama Castle is a Japanese castle in what is now the city of Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The Sengoku daimyō Tsutsui Junkei started construction of the castle, and Toyotomi Hidenaga made it his residence. In the Edo period, it became the headquarters of the Kōriyama Domain. During this time it was held by members of the Mizuno, Okudaira Matsudaira, Honda, Fujii Matsudaira, and Yanagisawa clans.

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Genkuro Inari Shrine is a shrine located in Tosenji Town, Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is famous for the legend of the fox who bought the Genkuro fox and the cotton hat. It is a place sung in the nursery rhyme "Yamato no Genkuro Mr./Ms.", and is known locally as "Genkuro Mr./Ms.". In the main shrine facing north, the god of the soul of Ukano, Genkuro Inari Daimyojin (Genkuro Fox) is enshrined. Although it is a small inari, it is counted as one of the three major inari in Japan, and is sometimes counted as one of the two major inari in and the three major inari in the Kansai region.

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Eikeiji Temple is a temple located in Eikeiji Town, Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is a Huang Tang sect temple, and the name of the mountain is Longhua Mountain. The main Buddha is Shakyamuni.

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Mount Matsuo (松尾山, Matsuo Mr./Ms.) is a mountain with an altitude of 315 m on the border between Yamatokoriyama City and Ikaruga Town in Nara Prefecture. Matsuo-ji Temple, the oldest temple in Japan, is said to have been built by Emperor Temmu's Crown Prince Shahito in the second year of Yoro (718) to ward off evil and complete the compilation of the Japan Shoki.

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Nara Prefectural Museum of Folklore opened in Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture, Japan, in 1974. Located at the foot of the Yata Hills within the 26.6 hectare Yamato Folk Park (大和民俗公園), the Museum collects, preserves, and displays artefacts relating to everyday life in Nara Prefecture from the Edo period to the Shōwa 40s. Among the forty-two thousand objects in the collection are 1,908 relating to forestry in the Yoshino District that have been jointly designated an Important Cultural Property. In the adjacent park are fifteen Edo-period minka, relocated from elsewhere in the prefecture, including the Former Usui Family Residence (旧臼井家住宅) (ICP).

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