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Gyōgan-ji

Gyōgan-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the Monzencho, Teramachi-dori, Takeya-cho neighborhood of , Japan. It belongs to the Tendai sect of Japanese Buddhism and its honzon is a statue of Sunjū Kannon Bosatsu.
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  • Opening hours: 8:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan
  • Also known as: “Gyogan-ji” and “Gyōgan-ji Temple”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kyoto Imperial Palace and Kyoto City Library of Historical Documents.

Castle
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
The Kyōto Imperial Palace, also known as Dairi, is the former palace of the Emperor of Japan from 1337 to 1869 located in , , . Since the Meiji Restoration in 1869, the Emperors have resided at the , while the preservation of the was ordered in 1877. is situated 1 km northwest of Gyōgan-ji.

Museum
Photo: Mariemon, CC BY 3.0.
opened in , Japan, in 1982. The museum's collection of over ninety thousand items relevant to the includes materials relating to the Yase Dōji that have been designated an Important Cultural Property. is situated 320 metres north of Gyōgan-ji.

Museum
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The is located in , , . The museum's collection includes approximately 300,000 items as of 2016, with 50,000 volumes of manga that can be accessed and read by visitors and approximately 250,000 items in its closed-stack collection, which can be accessed via a dedicated research room supported by reference facilities. is situated 1 km southwest of Gyōgan-ji.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kyōto-Gyoen and Kamigyō-ku.

Neighborhood
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Kyoto Gyoen National Garden is a 65-hectare national garden of Japan that was established after the Japanese capital was transferred from Kyoto to Tokyo. It is situated around the .

Suburb
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is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in , . The ward was a district of residences for the royalty, aristocrats, and upper classes in the old capital of JapanーHeian-ky.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Gyōgan-ji

Latitude
35.01628° or 35° 0′ 59″ north
Longitude
135.76767° or 135° 46′ 4″ east
Open location code
8Q7Q2Q89+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 598284763
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Wiki­data ID
Q10919351
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Turkish—“Gyōgan-ji” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “行愿寺”
  • Chinese: “行願寺”
  • German: “Gyōgan-ji”
  • Indonesian: “Wihara Gyōgan-ji”
  • Japanese: “第19番 霊麀山 行願寺(gyou gan ji)「革堂」”
  • Japanese: “行願寺”
  • Japanese: “革堂”
  • Turkish: “Gyōgan-ji”
  • “Gyogan-ji”
  • “Gyōgan-ji”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gyōgan-ji”. Photo: nnn, CC BY 2.1 jp.