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Opening the Special Website for the “Autumnal Exhibition"

We are pleased to announce the opening of a special website in conjunction with the Autumnal Exhibition of Temple Treasures. The site includes explanations of the temple treasures on display. Please click the link banner on the top page or the link below.

October 1, 2024
Eikando Zenrin-ji


Autumnal Exhibition and Night Visit in 2024

Autumnal Exhibition and Night Visit in 2024 will be planed according to the following schedule.
Depending on the status of Covid-19 infection, it is expected that the period and the management will be changed significantly. Also, private cars and tourist buses will not be allowed to enter the precincts during this period. Please check this website for the latest information.

Day Time Visit (Autumnal Exhibition)

  1. Period: November 11th (Mon) ~ December 8th (Sun)
  2. Reception time: 9:00 AM ~ 4:00 PM (The visit is closed at 5:00 PM.)
  3. Admittance fee:
  4.   Adult 1,000yen
  5.   Student 400yen (a primary school ~ a high school)
  6. Display items:
    - Twenty-five Bodhisattvas
    - Amida (Amitabha) and Twenty-five Bodhisattvas
    - Amida (Amitabha) Descending to Receive a Deceased Person's Soul
    etc.

Night Time Visit

  1. Period: November 11th (Mon) ~ December 1st (Sun)
  2. Reception time: 5:30 PM ~ 8:30 PM (The visit is closed at 9:00 PM.)
  3. Admittance fee: 700yen (above a junior high school student)
  4. Items opened: Amida-do and the garden

Attention
1. The ticket for the Night Time Visit is diferent from the one for the Day Time Visit. All of the Day Time visitors are requested to walk out the precincts before 5:00 PM.
2. Advance tickets for the daytime and the night time are not available. Please purchase tickets on the day of your visit. Tickets are only valid on the day of the visit.

September 5, 2024
Eikando Zenrin-ji

About Red Seal Services of Eikando (Shuin)

As part of our measures to prevent Covid-19 spread, we have only been offering red seals in the form of pre-writtern paper, but we have resumed to write a red seal on a red seal books since last New Year's Day. However, in two or more consecutive holidays and the Autumnal Exhibition period, we have accepted only the form of pre-writtern paper. The same measures will be continued this year. We would like to thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

[Info] What is Shuin?
In the olden days, people wrote sutras and handed them to temples. The temples issue a red seal as a proof of receiving them. This red seal is a origin of Shuin. Even today, the red seal book is also called a sutra book, and it is common to receive an calligrapic signature and red stamps from a temple or a shrine. Shuin is proof of religious faith.
Some visitors to temples and shrines may think of it as a commemorative stamp that can be given at tourist sites, but it is important to understand the meaning of Shuin.

January 1, 2024
Eikando Zenrin-ji



Request to bring a shoe bag

In order to reduce plastic waste, it is necessary to reduce the use of plastic bags. At Eikando, we also handed out plastic bags as shoe bags, but we will stop the distribution of a plastic bag in stages over one year from July 1, 2020. In the future, we would like to request visitors of Eikando to bring their own shoe bag. We would appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

January 1, 2024
Eikando Zenrin-ji



Beware of spoofed e-mails by the sender's name of Eikando !

Junk e-mails have been still distributed under the spoofed IP-address of Eikando.
xxxx@eikando.or.jp is the sender's address of those junk mails. The characters of xxxx are changed from time to time. We never send e-mails except for a reply for your inqliry.
Those spoofed mails may be in danger of a virus. When you receive an unexpected mail under the sender's address mentioned above, please deleted it without opening.

January 1, 2024
Eikando Zenrin-ji