Koyasan Reihōkan, Mount Koya

Name: Koyasan Reihōkan
Address: 306 Koyasan, Mount Koya, 648-0211, Japan
Telephone: +81 736-56-2029

#2 among attractions in Mount Koya

Top attraction, Specialty museum, Art museum, Museum

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Kōyasan Reihōkan is an art museum on Kōya-san, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, preserving and displaying Buddhist art owned by temples on Kōya-san. The collection is centered around articles from the Heian and Kamakura periods and includes paintings, calligraphy, sutras, sculpture and Buddhist ritual objects. Among these are a set of the complete Buddhist canon, writings of Kūkai and Minamoto no Yoritomo, founder of the Kamakura Shogunate, mandalas and portraits of priests. The most valuable objects have been designated as National Treasure or Important Cultural Property. ()

Local name: 高野山霊宝館 Coordinates: 34°12'41"N, 135°34'52"E

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306 KoyasanMount Koya 648-0211 Japan

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+81 736-56-2029

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Koyasan Reihōkan – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Kongōbu-ji, Muryōkōin, Kongō Sanmai-in, Koyasan University.

~1340 ftNE
, Temple, Sacred and religious sites
Kongōbu-ji, Mount Koya
7 min walk • Nestled within the sacred Mount Koya in Wakayama, Japan, lies Kongōbu-ji, the head temple of the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism. Founded by Kobo Daishi, also known as Kukai, in 816, the temple has stood as a spiritual center for over a millennium.
0.4 miNE
Temple, Buddhist architecture
Muryōkōin, Mount Koya
11 min walk • Muryōkōin is a temple of Koyasan Shingon Buddhism, located on Mount Kōya, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. Its name means "Temple of limitless light" and is the Japanese transliteration of Amitābha.
~1860 ftE
Temple, Sacred and religious sites
Kongō Sanmai-in, Mount Koya
9 min walk • Kongō Sanmai-in is a minor temple complex on Mount Kōya in Japan, founded in 1211 by order of Hōjō Masako for posthumous soul of Minamoto no Yoritomo and renamed "Kongō Sanmai-in" in 1219 for that of Minamoto no Sanetomo.
~1240 ftE
Universities and schools, Buddhist architecture
Koyasan University, Mount Koya
6 min walk • Koyasan University is a private university in Mount Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the school was established in 1886 as a monastic school for Shingon Buddhist monks, and it was chartered as a university in 1926.

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Which popular attractions are close to Koyasan Reihōkan?

Nearby attractions include Koyasan University, Mount Koya (6 min walk), Kongōbu-ji, Mount Koya (7 min walk), Kongō Sanmai-in, Mount Koya (9 min walk), Muryōkōin, Mount Koya (11 min walk).