Mount Koyasan (Koya)
Japan /
Wakayama /
Hashimoto /
Koya
World
/ Japan
/ Wakayama
/ Hashimoto
temple, buddhist temple
Mount Koya (高野山, Kōyasan) is the center of Shingon Buddhism, an important Buddhist sect which was introduced to Japan in 805 by Kobo Daishi (also known as Kukai), one of Japan's most significant religious figures. A small, secluded temple town has developed around the sect's headquarters that Kobo Daishi built on Koyasan's wooded mountaintop. It is also the site of Kobo Daishi's mausoleum and the start and end point of the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 34°12'48"N 135°34'59"E
- Kongōbu-ji 0.2 km
- Karukaya-do (temple) 0.9 km
- Nanten−en 1 km
- Sango-ji Temple 38 km
- Kozan-ji 56 km
- Tosho-ji 66 km
- Seiganto-ji 67 km
- Fudarakusan-ji Temple 71 km
- Kaiozen-ji Temple 73 km
- Ryuzoji Temple 77 km
- Koyasan Fudoin Temple 0.7 km
- Koyasan Nakanohashi Parking 2 km
- Koyasan Okunoin Cemetery 2.1 km
- Koyasan Daireien (Cemetery) 2.2 km
- Koyaootaki Falls 4 km
- Kihoku HVDC Static Inverter Plant 7.5 km
- Shiraguchimine 14 km
- Fujisaki headworks 16 km
- Mt. Gomadan 18 km
- Japan Transport Engineering Company Wakayama Plant 20 km