Chiba & Narita · Sights

Best Temple in Chiba & Narita

8 places, each checked by our team.

• Mama-san Guhoji 真間山 弘法寺Mama (Ichikawa) — A hilltop Nichiren temple in Ichikawas Mama district reached by a long stone stairway, famous for the 400-year-old Fushihime-zakura weeping cherry…
• Nakayama Hokekyo-ji 中山法華経寺Nakayama (Ichikawa) — A head temple of Nichiren Buddhism founded in 1260, with a 31 m vermilion five-storey pagoda, a rare double-gabled Founders Hall and a treasure…
• Naritasan Shinshoji Temple 成田山新勝寺Narita (Omotesando) — One of Japan's great pilgrimage temples, founded in 940 and visited by about three million people over New Year. Booming goma fire rituals, an…
• Nihonji Temple (Mt. Nokogiri) 鋸山 日本寺Kyonan (Boso) — Vast temple complex on the slopes of Mt. Nokogiri with Japan's largest seated stone Buddha, 1,500 rakan statues and the 'Peek into Hell' cliff…
• Ryukakuji Temple 龍角寺Sakae — One of the oldest temples in eastern Japan, whose principal image is a bronze Hakuho-period Yakushi Buddha head (an Important Cultural Property),…
• Shibayama Nioson (Kannonkyoji Temple) 芝山仁王尊 観音教寺Shibayama — A temple founded in 781, famous across Kanto for its guardian-king talismans against fire and theft, with a massive zelkova-wood Nio gate, an…
• Shimousa Kokubunji 下総国分寺Kokubun (Ichikawa) — The successor to the 8th-century provincial temple of Shimousa on the Konodai plateau, beside the excavated foundation stones of the original pagoda…
• Sogo Reido (Tokoji Temple) 宗吾霊堂(東勝寺)Narita (Sogo) — The memorial temple of Sakura Sogoro, the 17th-century village headman executed for petitioning the shogun on behalf of starving farmers, with a…