Kyo-o-ji Temple

Kyo-o-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple in Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido. Kyo-o-ji Temple is situated nearby to the metro station Gakuen-Mae, as well as near Toyohira Bridge.

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Type: Buddhist temple
Description: temple in Toyohira-ku, Sapporo
Also known as: “Keiō-ji”, “Keiō-ji Temple”, “Kyoo Ji”, and “Kyōō Ji”
Address: 1, 3丁目, 豊平区, 札幌市, 062-0904

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gakuen-Mae and Sapporo TV Tower.

Gakuen-Mae

Metro station

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Gakuen-Mae Station is a subway station on the Sapporo Municipal Subway Tōhō Line in Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. It is numbered "H10". Gakuen-Mae is situated 400 metres south of Kyo-o-ji Temple.

Sapporo TV Tower

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The Sapporo TV Tower, built in 1957, is a 147.2-metre-high TV tower with an observation deck at a height of 90.38 metres. Located on the ground of Odori Park, in the northern city of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, the tower is open to tourists. Sapporo TV Tower is situated 1½ km northwest of Kyo-o-ji Temple.

Toyohira Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Kinori, Public domain.

Toyohira Bridge is situated 600 metres northwest of Kyo-o-ji Temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chūō-ku and Shiroishi-ku.

Chūō-ku

Suburb

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Chūō-ku is one of the ten wards in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Chūō-ku means "central ward" in Japanese. City administration and entertainment facilities are centred in this ward.

Shiroishi-ku

Suburb

Photo: 禁樹なずな, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Shiroishi-ku is one of the ten wards in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. As of August 31, 2021, the ward has a population of 213,704.

Higashi-ku

Suburb

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Higashi-ku is one of the 10 wards in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is directly translated as "east ward", and is neighboured to Kita-ku, Chūō-ku, Shiroishi-ku, Ebetsu, Tōbetsu. Higashi-ku is situated 3 km north of Kyo-o-ji Temple.

Kyo-o-ji Temple

Categories: place of worship and religion
Location: Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Central Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

43.0514° or 43° 3′ 5″ north

Longitude

141.36891° or 141° 22′ 8″ east

Elevation

31 metres (102 feet)

Open location code

8RM33929+HH

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4472066785

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

GeoNames ID

11997691

Wikidata ID

Q28688557

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In Other Languages

From Indonesian to Japanese—“Kyo-o-ji Temple” goes by many names.

Indonesian: “Wihara Keiō-ji”
Japanese: “きょうおうじ”
Japanese: “キョウオウジ”
Japanese: “経王寺”

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