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Entrance to Sugamo Jizo-dori shopping street 巣鴨地蔵通り商店街

Sugamo Jizo-dori shopping street 巣鴨地蔵通り商店街「おばあちゃんの原宿」

The clothing shops are geared for elderly women. Sugamo is the fashion capital for elderly women. 「おばあちゃんの原宿」

Nakasendo road marker.

Most of the clothing items are price low, around 1,000 yen which might be affordable by people living on social security.

Hat shop

Sugamo Jizo-dori shopping street 巣鴨地蔵通り商店街

Kōgan-ji Temple (高岩寺)

Gate to Koganji temple, a famous spot along the shopping street.

Koganji temple. The temple's popular name is "Togenuki Jizo-son." It sells magic paper called osugata which supposed to remove a thorn or splinter from your skin. Affix it to the thorn and it will be extracted. とげぬき地蔵尊

Togenuki means thorn-extracting. Koganji temple incense burner

Koganji temple Hondo hall. This is a Zen temple belonging to the Soto-shu school. The temple was founded in 1596 and moved to Sugamo in 1891.

Inside Koganji temple Hondo. The temple houses the Togenuki Jizo statue which is not visible to the public.

Grounds of Koganji temple as seen from the Hondo hall.

People line up to wash the famous Kannon statue. The line gets longer on weekends.

People in line for the Arai (Washable) Kannon statue. Anybody can line up and scrub the statue. No charge.

Arai Kannon statue. Wash the part of the body to cure the corresponding part of your own body. 洗い観音

They used to have a tawashi brush to wash the statue, but that wore out the statue. So the replacement statue is now washed/rubbed with a towel instead.

Jizo statue

People relax in front of the temple.

The shopping street is quite long, going all the way to Nishi-Sugamo on the Mita subway line.

The famous red underwear. Supposed to keep you warmer. For men and women.

Umbrella shop

Tokyo Toden streetcar, Koshin-zuka Station.

Six Jizo

On Aug. 23 and 24, Samegai's Jizo-do temple holds the annual Jizo-bon festival at night. The Nakasendo Road has food stalls and displays of paper mache figures. 地蔵盆

Jizo-bon is held along the Nakasendo road with various displays of paper mache figures made by local school children.

Jizo-bon in Samegai, Maibara.

People line up at Jizo-do temple to pray to Jizo.

Jizo altar at Jizo-do temple in Samegai, Maibara.

Jizo statues during Jizo-bon.

Figures at Isame-no-Kiyomizu spring during Jizo-bon festival.

Fortune-telling octopus.

Some displays move.

Hiroshige's print of Samegai-juku in his Kisokaido series.

Exhibition space in Mizunoeki

Exhibition in Mizunoeki

Near Kinomoto Station is Jizo-zaka road, a slightly sloping cobblestone road leading to the Jizo-in temple. During the annual Kinomoto Jizo Ennichi Festival held on Aug. 22-25, this road is packed with food stalls and people going to worship. 地蔵縁日

Jizo-zaka road. Ennichi is the temple or shrine's auspicious or special commemoration days. When you go to worship on such days, your prayers will be answered in better ways than usual. The festival is held from 9 am to 10 pm. 地蔵坂

Jizo-zaka as seen from Jizo-in temple. On the last day of the festival (Aug. 25)., fireworks is held from 8 pm to 8:30 pm.

Jizo-zaka road as seen from the temple.

Kinomoto Jizo-in temple during the Kinomoto Jizo Festival held Aug. 22-25. MAP

What Jizo-zaka looks like from the Jizo-in temple entrance.

Going to worship at Kinomoto Jizo-in temple.

During the annual Kinomoto Jizo Festival, an endless stream of people come to worship.

Lighting incense.

Worshippers inside the Kinomoto Jizo-in temple. Scroll down further to see what it looks like without all the people.

View from the temple.

Giant Jizo statue overlooks food stalls within the temple grounds.

Kids catching small colorful balls in the water with a paper net.

You can exchange the balls with prizes (more balls = better prizes).

Votive prayer tablets with frog design.

Jizo statue

On Hokkoku Kaido Road fronting the temple, more food/game stalls.

Hokkoku Kaido Road

Former bank building called Koyukan, now used for flea markets and other events. 交遊館

Ennichi in the evening as people stick around for the fireworks.

Kinomoto Jizo-in temple in the evening of ennichi festival.

Jizo-in entrance along the Hokkoku Kaido road. This is how it looks on normal days. These photos were taken in Jan.

Entrance to Jizo-in or Joshinji temple. This is how the temple looks on less crowded days. 木之本地蔵院

Kinomoto Jizo-in Hondo temple hall on the left and giant Jizo statue on the right. 木之本地蔵院

Hondo 本堂地蔵堂

Stone lantern, giant Jizo, and temple bell

Hondo 地蔵堂

Flags and temple roof.

Frog fountain

Kawara roof tile donations. 奉納瓦

Kawara roof tile donations, 2000 yen per tile. You get to write on it too. 奉納瓦

Omikuji fortune paper tied to strings.

Temple bell

Jizo statue and temple bell

Giant Jizo statue and incense burner, Kinomoto Jizo-in, Shiga 木之本地蔵院

Giant Jizo statue stands 6 meters tall.

Built in 1894 (Meiji 27), the Jizo statue is Japan's largest Jizo statue. 地蔵大銅像

Giant Jizo statue. (Cannot go inside the statue.) 地蔵大銅像

This statue is a large replica of the actual Jizo statue worshipped in the temple. 地蔵大銅像

Base of giant Jizo statue

Base of giant Jizo statue covered with frogs which help people receive divine blessings from the Jizo. 身代わり蛙

Base of giant Jizo statue and frogs. Buy a frog for 1,000 yen and write your name and age on it and place it here. 身代わり蛙

One eye is closed. For people with eye or vision/health problems, the frogs are trying to take their place and bear the problem while the Jizo is to give blessings to the person. 身代わり蛙

Up view

Profile view

Back view of Jizo statue

Hondo steps

Inside temple hondo main hall

Altar straight ahead.

Red rope for ringing a bell.

Ema votive tablets with Year of the Boar

Side of Hondo main hall and entrance to the basement corridor. 御戒壇巡り

Basement corridor of Hondo. Totally dark. Admission 300 yen. 御戒壇巡り

Basement corridor of Hondo. 御戒壇巡り

Stone monument

Small Jizo statues out front

Small Jizo statues

Entrance to Amida-do temple which is next to the Jizo temple 阿弥陀堂

阿弥陀堂

Amida-do hall 阿弥陀堂

Altar in Amida-do hall, Jizo-in, Kinomoto, Shiga 阿弥陀堂

Inside Amida-do altar

Inside Amida-do hall

Torii

Shrine

Shoin 書院

Shoin entrance and where Emperor Meiji rested. 書院

Inside shoin 書院

書院

Shoin altar

Shoin and garden

Famous Japanese garden outside the shoin 文部省指定の名勝庭園

Famous garden outside the shoin 文部省指定の名勝庭園

Shoin

Emperor Meiji's room in the shoin when he visited Kinomoto.

Emperor Meiji's room. Notice the elevated tatami mat and footwear.

Palanquins in the shoin

Corridor to the back of the Hondo main hall. 地蔵尊縁起絵

Jizo paintings 地蔵尊縁起絵

Perfumed water?

Ura-Jizo (Rear Jizo) at the back of the Hondo, now open to the public from Jan. 2007. 裏地蔵尊

Temple walls as seen from the Hokkoku Kaido road.

Garden of many Jizo statues.

From here, the path to the temple (main hall) is lined with 1,000 Jizo statues.

Yomegashima island and Jizo statues, Lake Shinji

Jizo statue at Lake Shinji, Matsue.

Shofukuji temple's Jizo-do Hall (地蔵堂) is one of only two buildings in Tokyo designated as a National Treasure. Built in 1407, the Jizo-do Hall is a rare and excellent example of Kamakura-Period architecture. The Zen temple belongs to the Rinzai

Shofukuji is a Zen temple belonging to the Rinzai Sect. About a 15-min. walk from Higashi-Murayama Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line. It's in a residential area.

Shofukuji temple's Sanmon Gate. 山門

Beyond the Sanmon Gate is the Jizo-do Hall.

Approaching the Jizo-do Hall, a National Treasure.

The Jizo-do Hall has numerous ("One-thousand") Jizo statues.

Shofukuji temple's Jizo-do Hall (地蔵堂) is one of only two buildings in Tokyo designated as a National Treasure. The sharp roof corners rise up sharply.

Shofukuji temple's Jizo-do Hall (地蔵堂) is one of only two buildings in Tokyo designated as a National Treasure. Near Higashi-Murayama Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.

Beautiful building. Pity that it's so obscure in an obscure city. Only the local people know about it.

Jizo-do is said to have been built in the 15th century during the Kamakura Period, thus it is a fine example of Kamakura-Period architecture.

It resembles Engakuji temple's Shariden Hall (also a National Treasure) in Kamakura. Tokyo's other National Treasure building is the Meiji-Period Geihinkan State Guesthouse at Akasaka Palace. Rear of Jizo-do Hall.