Chōkyū-ji Temple

What it is

• A Tendai sect temple founded between 1648 and 1652 in Ageo City.
• The site likely housed a hermitage as early as the Heian period.
• A temple school operated on the grounds starting in the late Edo period.
• The temple functioned without a resident priest for eighty years.

What to see

• A gravestone for the monk Kakuun discovered during excavations in 1989.
• A monument commemorating the teacher Chijun and his former students.

Getting there

• The temple is a seven minute walk from Shonam Station.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.