🍡🌸✨Enjoy the beauty of Chion-in Temple Spring illumination and Japanese treats✨🌸🍡

This temple is historically significant because it was here that Jōdo shū (Pure Land Sect) founder Hōnen (1133-1212) spread the teachings of “nembutsu-only”(chanting only the name of Amitabha) until his final year, and it is here that he passed away. During the Edo period (1600-1868), the present temple grounds were built when Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun and Jōdo shū follower, deemed this temple to be his family temple.

During the spring cherry blossom viewing season, the illumination within the precinct is simply breathtaking.

And what could be better than enjoying sake and local foods at the food stalls while gazing at the illuminated cherry blossoms❓😊