Komyoji

Komyoji is a Buddhist temple in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido. Komyoji is situated nearby to the deciduous forest Hokkaido University Archaeological Heritage Park, as well as near the railway station Sōen Station.

Type: Buddhist temple
Also known as: “Komyo Ji” and “Kōmyō Ji”
Address: 5, 北15条西15丁目, 中央区, 札幌市, 北海道 060-0015

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sōen Station and Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau.

Sōen Station

Railway station

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Sōen Station is a railway station in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company. The station is numbered S02. Sōen Station is situated 680 metres south of Komyoji.

Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau

Government office

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Ishikari Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, located in the western part of the island. The subprefecture covers 3,539.86 square kilometres and on July 31, 2023 had a population of 2,379,802. Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau is situated 2 km southeast of Komyoji.

Hokkaido University Archaeological Heritage Park

Deciduous forest

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Hokkaido University Archaeological Heritage Park is a deciduous forest.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kita-ku and Nishi.

Kita-ku

Suburb

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Kita-ku is a ward of Sapporo composed of residential neighborhoods mostly arranged in grid patterns, and each built surrounding a train station, broken up by areas of farmland and some light-industrial areas.

Nishi

Suburb

Nishi is a ward of Sapporo composed of residential neighborhoods mostly arranged in grid patterns, with some areas of farmland and forested mountainous terrain mostly near its western and southern edges.

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 east of Komyoji.

Komyoji

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

43.07665° or 43° 4′ 36″ north

Longitude

141.32972° or 141° 19′ 47″ east

Elevation

15 metres (49 feet)

Open location code

8RM338GH+MV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3511333794

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

GeoNames ID

11999332

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In Other Languages

“Komyoji” goes by many names.

Japanese: “こうみょうじ”
Japanese: “コウミョウジ”
Japanese: “光明寺”

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