Osaka · Sights

Best Temple in Osaka

10 places, each checked by our team.

• Abiko Kannon (Abikoyama Daisho Kannonji) あびこ山大聖観音寺（あびこ観音）Abiko / Sumiyoshi — Popular temple for warding off bad luck, which describes itself as Japan's oldest Kannon temple, founded in the 6th century.
• Aizendo Shoman-in 愛染堂勝鬘院Tennoji — A small temple in Tennoji dedicated to Aizen Myoo, the deity of love, holding the oldest building in Osaka city, a two-storey Tahoto pagoda rebuilt…
• Fujiidera Temple 葛井寺Fujiidera — Number 5 of the Saigoku 33 Kannon pilgrimage, home to an 8th-century National Treasure Thousand-Armed Kannon with genuinely about a thousand arms,…
• Hozenji Temple (Mizukake Fudo) 法善寺（水掛不動）Namba / Dotonbori — A tiny temple in the backstreets of Namba where a statue of Fudo Myoo has been splashed with water by worshippers for so long it is completely…
• Isshinji Temple 一心寺Tennoji — A temple like no other: its Buddhas are made from the cremated ashes of hundreds of thousands of people, and its gate is guarded by muscular bronze…
• Katsuoji Temple 勝尾寺Minoh — A mountain temple in Minoh where thousands of red daruma dolls fill every ledge, step and rock, left by people who prayed for victory, with blazing…
• Kiyomizu-dera (Osaka) 清水寺（大阪）Tennoji — Osaka's little-known answer to Kyotos Kiyomizu: a wooden stage jutting from a hillside in the Tennoji temple town with a view to Tsutenkaku, and the…
• Kyuan-ji Temple 久安寺Ikeda — Hillside 'temple of flowers' founded in 725, with an Important Cultural Property gate and a long maple-lined approach.
• Senkoji Temple (Hirano) 全興寺Hirano — Playful Shingon temple where you check your heaven-or-hell score, face King Enma in the Hell Hall, then meditate on a stained-glass mandala.
• Shitennoji 四天王寺Tennoji — One of Japan's oldest official Buddhist temples, founded by Prince Shotoku in 593, with a five-storey pagoda in the original straight-line layout,…