Kenchū-ji
Kenchū-ji is a Jōdo-shū Buddhist temple in Tsutsui, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, central Japan. Starting in the Edo period, the mausoleums of the lords of the Owari Domain were located there, making it the Bodaiji of the Owari Tokugawa family.Photo: Tomio344456, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: temple in Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Also known as: “Kenchū-ji Temple”
- Postal code: 461-0003
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Aichi Prefectural Aichi Commercial High School and Tokugawa Art Museum.
Aichi Prefectural Aichi Commercial High School
School
Photo: Tomio344456, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aichi Prefectural Aichi Commercial High School is situated 180 metres northwest of Kenchū-ji.
Tokugawa Art Museum
Museum
Photo: Tomio344456, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tokugawa Art Museum is a private art museum, located on the former Ōzone Shimoyashiki compound in Nagoya, central Japan. Its collection contains more than 12,000 items, including swords, armor, Noh costumes and masks, lacquer furniture, Chinese and Japanese ceramics, calligraphy, and paintings from the Chinese Song and Yuan dynasties. Tokugawa Art Museum is situated 750 metres northeast of Kenchū-ji.
Tokai High School
School
Photo: Asturio Cantabrio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tōkai Junior and Senior High School is a private secondary school in Nagoya, Japan. Tōkai was founded in 1888. It has been ranked as No.1 in Japan concerning the number of students admitted to medical departments at national universities in Japan for the past 8 years since 2008. Tokai High School is situated 250 metres east of Kenchū-ji.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Naka Ward and Nishiki 3-chome.
Naka Ward
Suburb
Naka Ward is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the ward has an estimated population of 90,918 and a population density of 9,693 persons per km2. The total area is 9.38 km2.
Nishiki 3-chome
Neighborhood
Photo: Akahito Yamabe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nishiki 3-chome is a neighborhood.
Kita
Suburb
Photo: Gnsin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kita Ward is one of the 16 wards of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the ward had an estimated population of 163,555 and a population density of 9,330 persons per km2. The total area was 17.53 km2.
Kenchū-ji
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Higashi, Nagoya, Aichi, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.17923° or 35° 10′ 45″ northLongitude
136.92693° or 136° 55′ 37″ eastOpen location code
8Q7R5WHG+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2040575122OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q11486614
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Indonesian to Japanese—“Kenchū-ji” goes by many names.
- Indonesian: “Wihara Kenchū-ji”
- Japanese: “建中寺”
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