Mount Koya
Mount Kōya is a mountain in Wakayama prefecture to the south of Osaka, Japan, primarily known as the headquarters of the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Photo: Fabimaru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Quarter
- Description: Buddhist temple complex and settlement in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Kōya-san”, “Koyasan”, “Kōyasan”, “Mount Kōya”, and “大字高野山”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kongobu-ji and Koyasan University.
Kongobu-ji
Buddhist temple
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Kongōbu-ji is the ecclesiastic head temple of Kōyasan Shingon Buddhism, located on Mount Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Its name means Temple of the Diamond Mountain Peak.
Koyasan University
University
Photo: Reggaeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Koyasan University is a private university in Mount Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the school was established in 1886 as a monastic school for Shingon Buddhist monks, and it was chartered as a university in 1926.
Reihokan Museum
Museum
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Kōyasan Reihōkan is an art museum on Kōya-san, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, preserving and displaying Buddhist art owned by temples on Kōya-san. The collection is centered around articles from the Heian and Kamakura periods and includes paintings, calligraphy, sutras, sculpture and Buddhist ritual objects.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kōya.
Kōya
Town
Photo: Fabimaru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kōya is a town located in Ito District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 November 2021, the town had an estimated population of 2,812, in 1,575 households.
Mount Koya
- Categories: mountain range, sacred mountain, basin, ōaza, sangō, pilgrimage site, religious complex, hexad, and locality
- Location: Kōya Chō, Ito district, Wakayama, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.2121° or 34° 12′ 44″ northLongitude
135.582° or 135° 34′ 55″ eastElevation
830 metres (2,723 feet)Open location code
8Q6Q6H6J+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 8735601530OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Mount Koya” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կոյա սան”
- Burmese: “ခိုးယတောင်”
- Catalan: “Kōya-san”
- Catalan: “Kōyasan”
- Catalan: “mont Kōya”
- Catalan: “Mont Kōya”
- Cebuano: “Kōya-san”
- Chinese: “高野山”
- Czech: “Kója”
- Dutch: “Koyasan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كويا”
- Esperanto: “Monto Koja”
- Finnish: “Kōyavuori”
- French: “Kōya-san”
- French: “Kōyasan”
- French: “mont Kōya”
- French: “Mont Kōya”
- German: “Kōya-san”
- German: “Kōya”
- Greek: “Κōγια-σαν”
- Greek: “Κōγιασαν”
- Greek: “Κόγια-σαν”
- Greek: “Κόγιασαν”
- Greek: “Όρος Κōγια”
- Greek: “Όρος Κόγια”
- Hebrew: “הר קויה”
- Hungarian: “Kója-hegy”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Kōya”
- Italian: “Monte Kōya”
- Japanese: “Kōya-san”
- Japanese: “こうやさん”
- Japanese: “高野山”
- Korean: “고야산”
- Ladin: “Kōya-san”
- Lithuanian: “Kojos kalnas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kōyafjellet”
- Norwegian: “Kōya-fjellet”
- Persian: “کوه کویا”
- Polish: “Kōya-san”
- Portuguese: “Monte Koya”
- Russian: “Коя-сан”
- Slovak: “Kója”
- Slovenian: “gora Koja”
- Spanish: “Monte Koya”
- Spanish: “Monte Kōya”
- Swedish: “Kōyaberget”
- Tatar: “Көя тавы”
- Turkish: “Kōya Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Коя”
- Venetian: “Monte Kōya”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Koya”
- Welsh: “Kōyasan”
- Wu Chinese: “高野山”
- Yue Chinese: “高野山”
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