Hongwanji Toyama Betsuin

It's a rare shape.

Original Text

It is a modern yellow building. It doesn't connect to the image of a temple. It's a rule to travel by Shinran saints in the precincts. It is a temple of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji school that is large but a little difficult to get close to.

Toyama branch temple of the Shinshu Otani school

Original Text

１８００ It is said that it originated from buying a Machiya and establishing the head temple. It is said that he was promoted to the annex in the Meiji １７ year (１９８４ year). The main hall was completed in the Showa ４２ year (１９６５ year) after the history of burning down due to the Toyama air raid. It is a modern reinforced concrete building and looks like a tower on the roof.

A large temple in downtown Toyama

Original Text

A large temple near restaurants in Toyama City. Toyama Betsuin of Honganji Temple. The area around the precincts is a parking lot. There is a tower above the building, and you can see it from a distance.

It is a very unique building in the downtown area of Toyama City.

Original Text

Honganji Toyama Betsuin is a very unique building near Sokuruwa-dori, a downtown area of Toyama City. When I went shopping with my parents in Toyama city since I was a child, I didn't even know the name of Honganji Toyama Betsuin at that time, whether it was a temple or a palace, but "a temple or a palace with a strange shape" I was calling it by the name. It is a very unique temple that even children call so. In the past, there was no high-rise building and I could clearly see it next to the shopping street of Sokuruwa, but ...

The modern and new main hall was impressive.

Original Text

It is a temple near Toyama Castle Ruins Park on the south side of Toyama Station. It seems that it is a annex of Nishi Honganji Temple in Kyoto, but when I visited, I couldn't feel the history of the new modern main hall. There was a statue of Shinran saint in the precincts.