• To-ji possesses more than 20,000 treasures designated as National Treasures or Important Cultural Properties and more than 50,000 pieces of sutras.
  • History[edit]. -ji was founded in the early Heian period.[1] The temple dates from 796, two years after the capital moved to Heian-kyō.
  • Then Kangen for simultaneous head of Daigo -ji, Kongōbu -ji and -ji was appointed and so united the hitherto fragmented Shingon shū under the authority of -ji.
  • The gardens are most pleasant during sakura and fall leaf viewing season, and on the 21st of any month a large market appears at -ji from 8am to 4pm.
  • -ji, Japonya'nın Kyoto kentinde bulunan bir Şingon Budist tapınağıdır. Tapınak, Minami semtinde Kyoto İstasyonu'nun güneybatısında, Ōmiya ve Kujō...
  • Not far south of Kyoto Station is To-ji Temple, the prominent five-story pagoda you can see from the window of the Shinkansen.
  • To Ji. 東寺 Tōji (東寺; とうじ) is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon sect in Kyoto, Japan. Its name means East Temple, and it once had a partner, Saiji (West Temple).
  • South side of Kyoto Station, you can see the five-story pagoda of To-ji, symbolic of Kyoto as the gateway to the old capital of Japan.
  • Built to impress, twice. When completed in the 740s, Tōdai-ji (or “Great Eastern Temple”) was the largest building project ever on Japanese soil.
  • -ji (東寺, -ji) (East Temple) is when u wanna discover the five-story pagoda structure, a building it reach up to 65m into Kyoto's sky.