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Not many tourists go there so that you can enjoy the peaceful time. The whole ticket is ¥1500 for 3 parts visit, strongly recommended. You can see the oldest building in the west of the temple, including the main hall for Buddha and the 5 storey tower. Better sit down and feel the peaceful. There is the other memorial hall in the east side of the temple. #GiveThanks

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Nara | In addition to cute deer, there are the world's oldest wooden buildings

The reason why I traveled thousands of miles to Horyuji is because it is the oldest existing wooden building group in the world. 📖Horyuji History 👨‍🦲Speaking of its establishment, we have to mention Prince Shotoku. 👨‍🦲Prince Shotoku, a famous figure in Japanese history. It is said that Prince Shotoku could speak as soon as he was born, had the wisdom of a saint, successfully unified the country, made people submit to the rule of the emperor, and established Buddhism as the state religion. 👨‍🦲Prince Shotoku is deeply loved by the Japanese, and his portrait is printed on 10,000 yen bills. 👨‍🦲At that time, because Prince Shotoku often came to the temple to understand Buddhism, Horyuji was also called "Horyuji of Learning". ⛩️Oldest Wooden Building 🌟Horyuji was built in 607 AD, during the Sui Dynasty in China, and has been 1400 years since then. 🌟Buddhism was introduced to China around the 1st century AD during the Eastern Han Dynasty. 🌟At that time, China's wooden buildings were very developed, and people knew how to build towers (buildings with two or more floors). 🌟Adding a stupa shape to the roof of a high-rise building became the tower of a Buddhist temple. ✅Horyuji 👍Horyuji covers a large area, and its layout and structure are deeply influenced by the architecture of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in China, divided into east and west courtyards. 👍【West Courtyard】 🌟The most important part of the entire temple 🌟Five-story pagoda, Golden Hall, Great Treasure Hall, etc., have the world's oldest wooden buildings. 👍【East Courtyard】 🌟The scale is much smaller, this was once the sleeping palace of Prince Shotoku, and it houses the secret Buddha Guanyin who saves the world. 👍【Great Treasure Hall】 🌟Located in the middle, the Great Treasure Hall stores many precious Buddha statues and Buddhist utensils. 🚌Transportation 🌟Departing from Kyoto, you can buy a Kintetsu 1-day pass 🌟The fare is 1500 yen, covering the Kintetsu line from Kyoto Station to Nara (cannot take the express) 💰Purchase location: Kintetsu Service Center at Kyoto Station, need to show passport 🚄Transportation: Kintetsu Tsuge Station B31-Nara Bus-Horyuji Front-Walk 5min ⏰The bus to Horyuji is one hour apart, so you need to wait a long time

Horyuji | The world's oldest wooden building

|The world's oldest wooden building. Nara 'World Cultural Heritage', the world's oldest wooden building 'Horyuji' 'Saiin Garan'🕊️ 'Five-storied Pagoda' 'Golden Hall': Asuka period (China Sui and Tang Dynasties), 1400 years of history 'Daibutsu-den': Mainly from the Asuka period, Nara period, Muromachi period, Buddha statues. 🍀 Bad dreams turn into good dreams Dreams come true.🍀 'Yume Shoden': National treasures are also stored here, including the statue of Prince Shotoku. Nara period, Shotoku sect 'Horyuji', Chugu-ji, Ikaruga Town

The empress Horyuji 🙏

#fallingseason #timetotravel The grounds of Hōryūji (Hōryū Temple) house the world's oldest surviving wooden structures, conveying images of Japan as it existed more than 1,300 years ago, during the Asuka Period (A.D. mid 6th - beginning of 8th c.). The story of Hōryūji's founding can be discovered in the historical writings engraved on the back of the halo of the Yakushi Nyorai Buddha statue, located on the eastern side of the room in the temple's Main Hall, and in the official inventory of Hōryūji property holdings recorded in 747. According to these records, the emperor Yōmei vowed to build a temple and an image of a Buddha as a form of prayer for his own recovery from illness-a vow he was never fated to fulfill, for he died shortly thereafter. These same writings state how Empress Suiko and Crown Prince Shōtoku fulfilled Emperor Yōmei's deathbed wish by building in 607 a temple and a statue of a Buddha, to which the temple was dedicated. The Buddha statue was of the Yakushi Nyorai (Bhaisajyaguru)―literally, "arrival as a healer"―and the temple was named the Ikaruga Temple (after the name of the location), or Hōryūji ("Temple of the Flourishing Law [of Buddhism]")