Umpenji Temple

Beautiful Half Day

Peaceful among the Cedars and Cypress Trees. Unpenji has 500 Arhat States that it is famous for, made in recent years, they line some of the pathways, all with different faces and postures. Beautiful ...

Beautiful Half Day

Peaceful among the Cedars and Cypress Trees. Unpenji has 500 Arhat States that it is famous for, made in recent years, they line some of the pathways, all with different faces and postures. Beautiful ...

Unpenji - a great ropeway ride to discover the Rakan

Unpenji (not Unbenji) is the tallest Ohenro temple. The ropeway is exciting and impressive and the Rakan figures are well worth the visit. many buildings are quite new - interesting to see a relativel...

Unpenji - a great ropeway ride to discover the Rakan

Unpenji (not Unbenji) is the tallest Ohenro temple. The ropeway is exciting and impressive and the Rakan figures are well worth the visit. many buildings are quite new - interesting to see a relativel...

It is a pilgrimage temple called the west Takano, which is said to be the highest place among Shikoku sacred places.

Original Text

This temple is the first of the pilgrimage temples from the ６６ number of Kagawa Prefecture to the final ８８ number of temples, which is called the nirvana dojo of Shikoku sacred places. It's a wonderful temple, but why did you climb here in the past? It is easy to think that it was an incredibly difficult place. It doesn't seem like human work to build such a large temple on the hillside of this high mountain. It is an old temple and famous temple that is said to have been built by Kukai in the year ７８９. There is a considerable distance from the ropeway mountaintop station to the tower ...