Tairyuji Cable Car Ropeway - Tairyuji Temple is the 21st temple on the 88 temple pilgrimage in Shikoku and is famous as a nansho - in other words a "d
Tairyuji Cable Car Ropeway - Tairyuji Temple is the 21st temple on the 88 temple pilgrimage in Shikoku and is famous as a nansho - in other words a "difficult to reach temple.” Set at 610 meters above sea level and involves a steep descent followed by a steep ascent. Most visitors take the ropeway which opened in 1992. Tairyuji is special and unusual among the pilgrimage temples in that whereas all the temples on the pilgrimage claim to have some connection with Kobo Daishi almost all of them have no historical documentation confirming it. Tairyuji does - Kobo Daishi himself wrote about the time he spent on this mountain at the age of 15. He spent 50 days here reciting a mantra one million times in an attempt to reach enlightenment. Though he didn't succeed, he continued his ascetic practices further south in a cave on Cape Muroto.
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Location: Anan, Japan
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