Kan’ei-ji
Tōeizan Kan'ei-ji Endon-in is a Tendai Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1625 during the Kan'ei era by Tenkai, in an attempt to emulate the powerful religious center Enryaku-ji, in Kyoto.Photo: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: Buddhist temple in Japan
- Also known as: “Kan’ei Ji”, “Kan’ei-ji Temple”, “Kan’eiji Temple”, and “Kaneiji”
- Address: 11, 上野桜木一丁目, 台東区, 東京都
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tokyo National Museum and National Museum of Western Art.
Tokyo National Museum
Museum
Photo: Wiiii, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tokyo National Museum or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the Taitō ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the four museums operated by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, is considered the oldest national museum and the largest art museum in Japan. Tokyo National Museum is situated 310 metres southeast of Kan’ei-ji.
National Museum of Western Art
Museum
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
The National Museum of Western Art is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016. National Museum of Western Art is situated 700 metres south of Kan’ei-ji.
Uguisudani Station
Railway station
Uguisudani Station is a railway station in Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company. The name relates to a valley where formerly many Japanese bush warblers were found. The station is to the north of the Tokyo National Museum and Ueno Park. Uguisudani Station is situated 320 metres east of Kan’ei-ji.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yanaka and Ikenohata.
Yanaka
Quarter
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yanaka is a sector of Taito, Tokyo, Japan and, along with nearby Nezu and Sendagi neighborhoods in Bunkyo ward, together called Yanesen, is one of the few Tokyo neighborhoods in which the old Shitamachi atmosphere can still be felt.
Kan’ei-ji
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Taito, Tokyo, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.72158° or 35° 43′ 18″ northLongitude
139.77437° or 139° 46′ 28″ eastElevation
22 metres (72 feet)Inception
1625Open location code
8Q7XPQCF+JPOpenStreetMap ID
way 153990148OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipGeoNames ID
10967677Wikidata ID
Q3120766
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Kan’ei-ji” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kan’ei-ji”
- Chinese: “宽永寺”
- Chinese: “寛永寺”
- Chinese: “寬永寺”
- Czech: “Kaneidži”
- Dutch: “Kan’ei-ji”
- Esperanto: “Kan’ei-ji”
- Finnish: “Kan’ei-ji”
- French: “Kan’ei-ji”
- French: “Kanei-ji”
- French: “temple Kan’ei”
- French: “Temple Kan’ei”
- German: “Kan’ei-ji”
- Indonesian: “Wihara Kan’ei-ji”
- Japanese: “Kan’ei-ji”
- Japanese: “かんえいじ”
- Japanese: “上野寛永寺”
- Japanese: “寛永寺”
- Japanese: “東叡山寛永寺”
- Korean: “간에이지”
- Persian: “معبد کان ائیجی”
- Persian: “معبد کانئی”
- Persian: “معبد کانائیجی”
- Portuguese: “Kan’ei-ji”
- Russian: “Канъэй-дзи”
- Spanish: “Templo Kan’ei-ji”
- Swedish: “Kan’ei-ji”
- Turkish: “Kan’ei-ji”
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