Soanji Temple

A NICE TEMPLE AT BASE OF CASTLE HILL

This is a castle like so many throughout Japan; worth a brief stop on the journey uphill to the castle. If you like temples give it some time.

Check it out if you're there.

This isn't a tourist spot, it's a place of worship and prayer. So don't seek it out, but if you stumble upon it take a look around. It's always very quiet.

important temple

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An important temple is located on the road. Can walk from the castle It is a Buddhist temple. There is an old bell tower. There are many standing Buddha statues.

A historic temple engraving history

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Although it is a temple along Yumekyobashi Castle Road, I noticed the vermilion-painted mountain gate (commonly known as the red gate) and the stunning pink double cherry blossoms blooming in the precincts during the walk. I learned for the first time from the information board in front of the gate that the temple is enshrined in the temple, such as the Ieyasu Tokugawa's Ieyasu pavilion, the Nemji Buddha of Mitsunari Ishida, and the Nemji Buddha of Yododen. In addition, when his wife came home and examined it, the nenji Buddha of yodo dono was Amida Nyorai of the principal image, and the akamon was relocated from Sawayama Jo castle of Mitsunari Ishida, and ... in the summer siege of Osaka.

You can see the nenji Buddha of Mitsunari Ishida.

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It is a temple facing Yumekyobashi Castle Road. It is a temple built by Naomasa II, and it is said that the Akamon gate, which is the mountain gate, was relocated from the gate of Sawayama Castle. If you walk along Castle Road, you can see the red gate, so you can see it immediately. There is no reception, but if you pay the admission fee at the temple office, you can visit the Shoin and the garden. The eye-catching ones in the precincts are the big oni tiles and the neck mounds of Shigenari Kimura. Shigenari Kimura is killed in the battle of Osaka, but the edge that the vassals of the II family struck ...