Byodo-in

Kyoto · Japan

Byodo-in, Japan
Photo: Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
Spring
Budget
$
Accessibility
limited
Coordinates
Open in maps

A temple in Uji whose graceful Phoenix Hall floats above a reflecting pond, an image reproduced on the ten-yen coin. It survives as a rare example of Heian-period Pure Land architecture.

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