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Tosa Kokubun-ji (Temple 29)

Tosa Kokubun-ji (Temple 29)

土佐国分寺

Kochi · Shikoku

Tosa Kokubun-ji is temple 29 of the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage, in Nankoku city east of Kochi. Founded in 741 as the provincial temple of Tosa province and attributed to the priest Gyoki, its main hall is a National Important Cultural Property and the whole precinct is a National Historic Site. The principal image is a thousand-armed Kannon.

Why we picked it

One of the few pilgrimage temples whose precinct is itself a designated National Historic Site, yet it is passed over for the better-known Chikurin-ji.

Crowd level
Moderate
Nearest station
Tosa-Nagaoka Station
Website
88shikokuhenro.jp/kochi/29kokubunji

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templehistorypilgrimage

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