Zōjō-ji Temple (2)🌸

🎫 Admission: FREE for all 🌟 ⏰ Open daily 9:00-17:00 🌞 🌸 For real-time sakura bloom status, check the Japan Meteorological Agency website 🌸 ⛩️ A Whirlwind of History ⛩️ Zōjō-ji is a Jōdo-shū (Pure Land) temple with the mountain name San’en-zan. Its full, official title is San’en-zan Kōdo-in Zōjō-ji—one of the seven great head temples of the Jōdo-shū Seizan branch and a former mortuary temple of the Tokugawa shogunate. 🌿 The temple’s roots stretch back to Bekke, present-day Chiyoda and Kioi-chō, where Shūei, a disciple of Kūkai and one of the “Eight Envoys to Tang China,” founded Kōmyō-ji, a Shingon temple. In 1393, Shōshō Shōnin, the 8th patriarch of Jōdo-shū, converted it to Pure Land Buddhism and renamed it Zōjō-ji. Since then, it has watched over Edo-Tokyo for more than 600 years. 🏯✨ #JapanTravel #TokyoSpot #ZojoJi #SakuraSeason #Tokyo