Ōtani Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsu-in

Ōtani Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsu-in is a branch temple of in , Hokkaidō, . Rebuilt after a fire in 1907, it is the first temple in Japan built with reinforced concrete.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: Buddhist temple in Hokkaido, Japan
  • Also known as: Higashi Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsuin”, “Ōtani-ha Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsuin”, “Shinshū Ōtani-ha Hakodate Betsu-in Temple”, “Shinshu Otani-ha Hakodate Betsuin”, and “Shinshū Ōtani-ha Hakodate Betsuin
  • Address: 15, 函館市, 北海道

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.

Church
of Hakodate is a Japanese Orthodox Church in the city of , , . The first purpose-built Orthodox Christian church to open in Japan was the wooden Russian Consulate chapel of the Resurrection of Christ, in Hakodate, Hokkaido, consecrated in October 1860. is situated 160 metres west of Ōtani Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsu-in.

Church
is situated 120 metres southwest of Ōtani Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsu-in.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hakodate and Hokuto.

Photo: J o, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a port city in Southern , . Separated by the 20-km long Tsugaru Strait from , Japan's main island, the city has naturally been seen as an entrance to Hokkaido.

is a city in the center of the in 's northern island of . It serves as a bedroom community for Hakodate, to the east of the city.

Ōtani Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsu-in

Latitude
41.76307° or 41° 45′ 47″ north
Longitude
140.7141° or 140° 42′ 51″ east
Open location code
8RH2QP77+6J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5841516985
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Wiki­data ID
Q285602
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Korean—“Ōtani Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsu-in” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: 大谷派本願寺函館別院
  • Chinese: 東本願寺
  • French: Ōtani Hongan-ji Hakodate Betsu-in
  • Indonesian: Wihara Shinshū Ōtani-ha Hakodate Betsu-in
  • Japanese: 大谷派本願寺函館別院
  • Japanese: 東本願寺函館別院
  • Japanese: 真宗大谷派函館別院
  • Korean: 히가시혼간지 하코다테베츠인

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Highlights include Exhibition for History of Carl Raymon and Muraoka gallery.

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