Daifuku-ji Temple

What it is

• A Shingon-shu Chizan-ha Buddhist temple.
• Founded when Gyoki carved a Kannon statue in 717.
• Ennin later built the Kannon-do hall.
• The Edo shogunate granted it official recognition.

What to see

• A kakezukuri Kannon-do, built into a cliff.
• A cliff-carved Eleven-faced Kannon Bodhisattva.
• This Kannon statue is known as Gake no Kannon.

Getting there

• 15-minute walk from Nako-Funagata Station.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.