About this place
Temple 10 of Saigoku — hillside flower temple above Uji.
Famous for azaleas and hydrangeas as well as Kannon devotion on the Kansai circuit.
Where you'll find it
Contemplating
On these routes
Pilgrimage circuits that include this place.
Pure Land
Japan 100 Kannon
The full national Kannon pilgrimage — Saigoku 33 + Bandō 33 + Chichibu 34, traditionally completed as one lifelong vow.
East Asia
Pure Land
Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage
Japan’s oldest major Buddhist circuit — 33 temples of Kannon across Kansai, older than the Shikoku henro.
East Asia
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Other centers and temples in the same tradition.
