Tour/Travel to the Zenkoji Temple main image exhibition

Club Tourism 's Zenkoji Temple Zenritsu Honzon Opening Tour/Travel Special! The Zenkoji Temple's largest ceremony, held once every seven years, will see the Zenritsu Honzon Opening. Don't miss this opportunity to visit. With a tour guide, you'll be well supported! It's easy to search for and book tours.

The morning service of chanting sutras in the main hall is called O-Asaji. The Yuza-Hoyo is a memorial service that marks the end of the day and is held every evening only during the period of the Gokaicho. During the Gokaicho period, the shrine of the Zentatsu Honzon is opened every morning at O-Asaji and closed at the Yuza-Hoyo.

It is said that by receiving the three-size treasure seal "Goinmon," which is said to be an incarnation of the Gohonzon, on your head, you are guaranteed to go to paradise.

Before and after morning and evening services, as the head priest goes to and from the main hall, it is customary to have his head stroked with prayer beads in order to pray for good health.
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The Buddha, which is said to have miraculous powers and is usually kept secret, is revealed by opening the doors of the shrine, and this ceremony is called Gokaicho.

In 2022, to coincide with the Shinshu Zenkoji Temple, Zenkoji Temple (Kai Zenkoji Temple) in Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Zenkoji Temple (Motozenkoji Temple) in Iida City, Nagano Prefecture, Zenkoji Temple (Sobue Zenkoji Tokai Betsuin) in Inazawa City, Aichi Prefecture, Zenkoji Temple (Seki Zenkoji Temple) in Seki City, Gifu Prefecture, and Zenkoji Temple (Gifu Zenkoji Temple) in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture were all simultaneously opened to the public.

It is said to be the public memorial site of the famous general Takeda Shingen, and is also the site of Honda Zenko's funeral, built by Shinshu Zenkoji Temple. Two giant dragons are painted on the ceiling of the inner sanctuary of the main hall, but this part is a suspended ceiling, and it is famous for the "roaring dragon" phenomenon that occurs when you clap your hands here, due to multiple reverberations.

The principal image of Shinshu Zenkoji Temple was abandoned in Horie, Namba during the anti-Buddhist/pro-Buddhist debate, but it was brought back by Honda Zenko, who was born in what is now Iida City, and is said to have been enshrined at Shinshu Zenkoji Temple. Honda Zenko enshrined the Buddha he brought back on a wooden mortar, and Motozenkoji Temple was built on this spot, and this wooden mortar is displayed as a sacred treasure in the treasure hall.

Seki Zenkoji Temple, decorated with cherry blossoms in spring, is famous for Japan's only swastika-shaped ordination platform tour. It is said that this ordination platform tour was created as a training ground for monks in ancient times, and it is said that by following the dark path, people can purify their mind and body and be guaranteed to go to paradise.

Gifu Zenkoji Temple was founded when Oda Nobunaga moved the principal image of the temple, which had been moved from Shinshu Zenkoji Temple to Kofu by Takeda Shingen, to Gifu. In Jul., the "Cucumber Seal" ceremony is held to pray for a safe summer and to ward off illness and dementia.

At the end of the Meiji period, two lotus flowers bloomed from one stalk on the grounds of the present-day temple grounds, which used to be a lotus field, and this temple was built by inviting the Zenkoji Nyorai Buddha from the Zenkoji Temple in Shinshu. The ordination pilgrimage of Sobue Zenkoji Temple, where it is said that one can see the state of the Pure Land, is said to be the largest in Japan.