Floating Hall

Floating Hall is a shrine in Otsu, Shiga. Floating Hall is situated nearby to the shrine Goddess Hall, as well as near the Buddhist temple Mangetsu Temple.

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Type: Shrine
Also known as: “Mangetsu-ji Ukimidō” and “Ukimidō”
Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mangetsu Temple and Izu Shrine.

Mangetsu Temple

Buddhist temple

Mangetsu Temple

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Mangetsu-ji is a temple beside Lake Biwa in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The Heian period statue of Shō Kannon is an Important Cultural Property. The temple, specifically the Ukimidō "floating temple" hall, features in one of the remaining views of the Eight Views of Ōmi, originally drawn by Hiroshige.

Izu Shrine

Shinto shrine

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Izu Shrine is a Shinto shrine, which is situated 160 metres northwest of Floating Hall.

Honpuku-ji Temple

Buddhist temple

Honpuku-ji Temple

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Honpuku-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple, which is situated 260 metres northwest of Floating Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karasuma Peninsula and Ōhara.

Karasuma Peninsula

Locality

Karasuma Peninsula

Photo: Haruno Akiha, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Karasuma Peninsula is a locality, which is situated 4½ km south of Floating Hall.

Ōhara

Hamlet

Photo: kajikawa, CC BY 3.0.

Ōhara is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km west of Floating Hall.

Floating Hall

Categories: dō, building, and religion
Location: Otsu, Shiga, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

35.10985° or 35° 6′ 36″ north

Longitude

135.92158° or 135° 55′ 18″ east

Inception

1937

Open location code

8Q7Q4W5C+WJ

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

building=shrine

OpenStreetMap attribute

wheelchair=no

Wikidata ID

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Japanese—“Floating Hall” goes by many names.

Chinese: “滿月寺浮御堂”
French: “Mangetsu-ji Ukimi-dō”
French: “pavillon flottant du temple Mangetsu”
French: “Pavillon flottant”
Japanese: “Ukimi-dō”
Japanese: “うきみどう”
Japanese: “浮御堂”
Japanese: “満月寺浮御堂”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Goddess Hall and 城山三郎「一歩の距離小説予科練」.

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