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Bishamon-do Temple

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  • Bishamon-do Temple

  • Bishamon-do Temple
    • Bishamon-do Temple is the temple of the Tendai sect of Buddhism in Yamashina-ku, Kyoto-shi.
    • The principal image is the one god of warriors of Seven Lucky Gods.
    • It prospered as one of Tendai-sect-of-Buddhism Kyoto-five-monseki.

The autumnal leaves of Bishamon-do.

    The autumnal leaves of Bishamon-do.

  • The flower of cherry trees, such as a "weeping cherry tree" etc. in age-of-a-tree 150, is in all glory, and the precincts of a temple become vivid with autumnal leaves in autumn in spring.
  • The whole precincts of a temple dye red, and are called one of the famous places of autumnal leaves representing the Yamashina area in the autumn of Bishamon-do.
  • An Imperial messenger -- it disperses in the stone pavement of the approach extended toward a gate, and it is covered with autumnal leaves red like a carpet

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    Access to Bishamon-do

  • [Address]
  •     18, Anshuinariyama-cho, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto-city
  • [Access]
  •     JR (Rlwy): 20-minute walk from Yamashina Station.
  •     Keihan Rlwy: 20-minute walk from Keihan-Yamashina Station.
  •     Subway : 20-minute walk from Yamashina Station.

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  • [The link to a website]
  •     The website of "Bishamon-do" (Japanese)

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