Sozenji Temple
Sozenji Temple is a Buddhist temple in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Tokyo. Sozenji Temple is situated nearby to the Buddhist temple Myogyo-ji, as well as near Chounji Temple.- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: temple in Yanaka, Taito-ku
- Also known as: “Sōzen-ji” and “Sōzen-ji Temple”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tokyo National Museum and Daimyo Clock Museum.
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 1 km east of Sozenji Temple.
Daimyo Clock Museum
Museum
The Daimyo Clock Museum is a small community-run museum in Yanaka 2-chōme, Tokyo. The museum was established in 1972 to display Japanese clocks from the Edo period collected by Sakujiro Kamiguchi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nezu and Yanaka.
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.
Sozenji Temple
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Bunkyo, Tokyo, Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.72086° or 35° 43′ 15″ northLongitude
139.76696° or 139° 46′ 1″ eastOpen location code
8Q7XPQC8+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 5403572668OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q111547972
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In Other Languages
From Indonesian to Turkish—“Sozenji Temple” goes by many names.
- Indonesian: “Wihara Sōzen-ji”
- Japanese: “宗善寺”
- Turkish: “Sōzen-ji”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Myogyo-ji and Chounji Temple.
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