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Awaodorikaikan

4.0

411 Reviews

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Tokushima ken Tokushima-shi Shimomachi Bridge2-20

"Opened in 1999, the Awa Odori Hall on the second floor features the Awa Odori Kaikan's resident troupe, ""Awa no Kaze,"" who perform on stage. In addition, there is an Awa Odori Museum on the 3rd floor that introduces the history of Awa Odori dance, a corner selling local specialties on the 1st floor, and the foot station of the Mt."

There are five performances daily. We were able to dance with them after a short explanation. This is a must if you want to see real awa odors dancing.
Tokushima City Tokushima Castle Museum

3.5

68 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Tokushimashi Tokushimachoujounai 1-8

This is a museum erected at the site of the Tokushima Castle palace ruins in Tokushima Central Park, Tokushima City. It is only a 10-minute walk from the JR Tokushima Station. The permanent exhibit is divided into five themes showcasing artisan works and historical materials of the Tokushima domain and the Hachisuka clan. Here, the Senzanmaru, a national Important Cultural Property that is a decorative whaling ship from the Tokushima domain is the main attraction amongst many other treasures. The museum annually hosts six special exhibits or themed exhibits. The visitors to the history museum may use the same ticket to enjoy the adjoining former Tokushima Castle Omote Goten Garden as well.

Tokushima castle museum is small but has a very nice collection of artifacts and information about the castle history and region. It is surrounded by a beautiful Japanese garden with some wildlife.
Idoji Temple

4.0

45 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Tokushimashi Kokufuchouido Kitayashiki 80-1

Idoji Temple, located to the west of Nakaakui Bridge, is the 17th temple of the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage. It used to be named Myoshoji Temple but it came to be called “Ido (Well) Temple” because of the story that Kobo Daishi dug a well with his staff for the local people who were lacking water. The well itself remains as the “Omokage no Ido.” The seven Buddha Yakushi Nyorai—main temple idols—are located in the main hall and were said to have been made by Shotoku Taishi. Visitors can come and worship directly. The eleven-faced Kannon bodhisattva located in the Kannon hall is designated as an Important Cultural Property.

アクセスがしやすい寺院でした。何度も参拝・遍路しているお馴染みの寺院です。開創１３５０年の古寺中の古寺名刹です。ネット上にも寺院の事については詳しく紹介されているので略。小さなお堂ですが、日限大師はいつ来ても面白い、目は相当弱っているものの、不思議に井戸にはちゃんと自分の姿が映っている。余り無駄に長生きはしたくないのですが・・・(不謹慎で申し訳ないが)。健康で好きなように行動出来るならいつまでも長...
Tokushima Prefectural Awa Jurobe Yashiki (Puppet Theater and Museum)

4.5

61 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Tokushimashi Kawauchichou Miyajimahonura 184

Located approximately 15 minutes by car or 30 minutes by bus from JR Tokushima Station, the Tokushima Prefectural Awa Jurobe Yashiki (Puppet Theater and Museum) is housed in the former residence of Bando Jurobe, the historical figure who inspired the Ningyo Joruri puppet theater play Keisei Awa no Naruto. Awa Ningyo Joruri puppet theater performances are held in the Museum on a daily basis. The Museum’s exhibition room houses displays on the Ningyo Joruri puppet theater tradition and on the deko puppets used. A wide range of special events are held to provide opportunities for more people to learn about Ningyo Joruri puppet theatre.

I loved everything about this place. Get there about 30 minutes early and catch the guided museum tour; a docent shows how the puppets work. The museum exhibits are all in English as well as...
Tatsue-ji Temple

4.0

33 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Komatsushimashi Tatsuechou Wakamatsu 13

Tatsue-ji Temple is a Koyasan Shingon Buddhist temple in Tatsue Town, Komatsushima City, Tokushima Prefecture and is the 19th temple of the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage. In 747 priest Gyoki carved a small statue of the Enmei Jizo as the principal image and built a pagoda for the Jizo to pray for smooth delivery for Empress Komyo. In 815 Kobo Daishi carved a large Jizo Buddha statue and put the principal image in its womb. Apart from many worshippers praying for an easy birth the temple is also famous as a “General Checkpoint of Shikoku” where wicked people were punished. The pictures on the ceiling in the main hall drawn when the temple was restored in 1977 are a must see. On the grounds there is the Kuro Kami Hall which is said to have remains of the hair pulled from women who were unfaithful to the morality.

相当な古寺です。創建１３００年に及ぼうかと云う名刹です。ここも又、四国の放火魔兼殺戮者の長曾我部何某とか云う文化財の破壊者によって焼失させられた寺院です。その後に再建されているので国宝とかはありません。気味が悪い伝説も残っているが、余り興味はありません。仁王門も多宝塔もなかなか立派な造りの堂塔です。ここにはどうでも良いと云うよりは、むしろ、あってはならないような余計な口コミページが沢山あります。ま...
Boyazan Hojuin Onzanji Temple

4.0

30 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Komatsushimashi Tanochou Onzanjidani 40

Boyazan Hojuin Onzanji on top of a small mountain located in a suburb of Komatsushima City, Tokushima Prefecture is a temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect, and the 18th temple of the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage. It is said that Gyoki was established at the behest of the Syomu Emperor (724 to 749), and it is also known as the temple where Kobo daishi lifted the ban prohibiting women from visiting the temple for his mother. Tamayorigozen’s teihatsujo where the mother of Daishi cut and dedicated her hair to become a priest, Biranju, where the bishop wood is also a Prefectural Natural Monument, and a statue of Kobo daishi which he is said to have carved himself are must-sees in the precinct.

なかなか良い遍路寺です、としか言いようがない程度の普通のありふれた寺院でした。縁起は１２００年を超える由緒ある寺院。昔は女人禁制だったらしい。知名度の割には印象が薄い寺院でした。本堂や大師堂よりも十大弟子像の方が見応えがあった。この遍路寺は効能抜群の「摺袈裟」で有名です。
Temple No. 5, Jizoji Temple

4.0

33 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Itanogunitanochou Rakan Hayashihigashi 5

The Jizo-ji Temple is an Omuro Shingon Buddhist Temple located in Itano Town, Itano District, Tokushima Prefecture. It is the fifth temple visited on the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage; the temple’s formal name is Mujin-zan Shogo-in. The Jizo-ji Temple is renowned for the 500 Arhat statues in the Okuno-in Hall.The temple is said to have been founded in 821 by Kobo Daishi (Kukai) on the orders of the Saga Emperor; Kobo Daishi personally carved a statue of the Shogun Jizo bodhisattva (approximately 5 cm high) to be the temple’s main object of veneration. Subsequently, Jokan Shonin, the officiating monk for Kumano Gongen, carved a statue of the Enmei Jizo bodhisattva (approximately 80 cm high) from Kumano Gongen’s sacred tree, and the statue of the Shogun Jizo bodhisattva carved by Kobo Daishi was placed inside this new statue. The temple thrived under the patronage of devout warlords, until it was destroyed by the armies of Motochika Chosokabe. The buildings that the visitor sees today date from the Edo period, when the temple was rebuilt on the orders of the Hachisuka family (the lords of the Tokushima domain).

弘法大師像をバックに仁王門から境内に進むと左手側が本堂となっていました。ゆったりした印象の平らな境内で、これなら急階段を上がる必要も無く参拝し易いと見受けられました。又、少し離れた奥の院には五百羅漢が祀られており、こちらは拝観料200円となっていました。
Kokubun-ji Temple

3.5

27 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Tokushimashi Kokufuchou Yano 718-1

The Kokubun-ji Temple is the 15th temple of the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage. It is one of many Kokubun-ji (state-supported provincial temples) founded throughout Japan by Emperor Shomu in the 8th century. As a total of four Kokubun-ji temples were established in Shikoku, and as several of them are included in the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage, this particular temple is known as the Awa Kokubun-ji Temple, to differentiate it from the others. The bodhisattva Gyoki personally carved a statue of the Yakushi Nyorai Buddha (Medicine Buddha) to serve as the main object of veneration at the Temple. The Temple originally belonged to the Hosso school of Buddhism (one of the Southern Schools), but changed allegiance to the Shingon school during the period in which Kobo Daishi was organizing the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage route. The Awa Kokubun-ji Temple Garden has been designated as a National Place of Scenic Beauty and also as a Prefectural Historic Site.

国分寺と云う名称の寺院で、印象に残っているものや素晴らしいと感じるものは凡そ全国にも皆無です。時の権力者が勅令で無理やり全国に一寺づつとして乱造させた寺院が国分寺なるものです。もっと地元に根差して、人々の崇敬を集約させた格好での創建でないと・・・そうでなくても豊かでない庶民の生活よりも寺院の乱造に精出すような為政者はどうか？と思う。数十の巨大寺院を権力で建造する余裕が国家としてあったなら、庶民にも...
Ai-no-Yakata Aizumicho Historical Museum

4.0

30 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Itanogunaizumichou Tokumei Maezunishi 172

The Ai-no-Yakata Aizumicho Historical Museum is a museum dedicated to indigo blue dyeing, located in Aizumicho. The building which houses the museum was formerly the mansion of the Okumura family, who were leading indigo dye merchants. Models depict the processes used to create indigo dye, and there are also displays of traditional agricultural tools and domestic utensils, as well as indigo-dyed traditional kimonos and historic fabrics. Visitors can also view the historical artifacts and works of art collected by the Okumura family. The intricate architecture of the buildings is also very impressive. To reach the Museum, take the Tokushima Bus service from JR Tokushima Station heading to Nijo and Kamojima, and get off at the Higashi-Nakatomi bus stop; the Museum is about five minutes’ walk from the bus stop.

Indigo dying with friends are funny. We had great time there. dont need to reserve but there are quite lots of people there.
Universe of Water Particles on Bunka-no-Mori Park

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Tokushima Tokushima-shi Hachimancho Mukai Terayama Bunkanomori Comprehensive Park

A permanent outdoor exhibit created by Team Lab, a group gaining much attention in Japan and around the world for its cutting edge digital art. The group created the exhibit by first recreating one of the buildings in the park in a virtual 3D space. They then simulated a waterfall falling over that building and used projection mapping to project this image on the actual building. The waterfall continually changes depending on the movement of people; standing at the top of the piece, the flow changes, and you can experience what it’s like to be a boulder obstructing the movement of water.
Anrakuji Temple

4.0

11 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Itanogunkamitachou Hikino Teranonishikita 8

This guesthouse has a history of 400 years, starting when Kobo Daishi discovered hot springs in the area. It exists even today—now as the only “Ekiroji Temple” of the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage. It is a rare set of hot spring/healing ruins. The main object of worship here is Yakushi Nyorai. It serves as a charming guesthouse for travelers who want to chat or see the Buddha statue and other items in an unusual place. It even appeared in a television drama as an overnight-stay hot spring.

ここの鐘楼門、これはその形状が素晴らしい！ここの本堂は昭和の中期に再建された鉄筋コンクリート造りのもので色彩等が寺院らしく施されているので、寺院らしくは見えるが文化財としては全く見るべきものではありません。それよりも気になったのはこの遍路寺の「口コミページ」？？これは一体何なのか？？同じ名称の遍路寺が3つも、おまけに極めつけは安楽寺の多宝塔とか、安楽寺の宿坊とか・・・まじめに投稿されたものとは思い...
Joroku-ji Temple

4.0

20 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Tokushimashi Jourokuchou Jouryou

The Joroku-ji Temple is a Soto-school Buddhist temple located in Tokushima City. The temple’s honorific “mountain name” is Zuirin-zan; its full formal name is Zuirin-zan Jiun-in Joroku-ji; it is the 24th temple on the Awa-Chichibu Kannon Temples 34-temple Pilgrimage. According to the temple’s own traditions, the Joroku-ji Temple was founded in 650, making it a very ancient temple. Besides the Hon-do (main hall), there are many National Important Cultural Properties in the temple, including the Sanmon gate, the Kannon-do hall, and the Kyozo (Scripture House), and as a result the Jorouku-ji Temple has become known as the “Awa region’s Horyu-ji Temple” (the Horyu-ji Temple in Nara is famous for its antiquity and its many treasures). The bloodstained floorboards from the treacherous attack on Shingai Sanetsuna by Motochika Chosokabe in the temple in 1582 have been preserved as part of the ceiling of the Tokuun-in hall; dark patches that are believed to be the vestiges of the bloodstains from the victims’ hands and feet can still be seen today.

ここは、阿波の法隆寺と呼ばれる程のお寺で観音堂には年季の入った像が拝めたりトイレの神様、血天井と見学出来ます。（血天井の注意書きは長い）境内参拝料金＝300円
Tomei-zan, Dogaku-ji Temple

3.0

13 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Myouzaigunishichou Ishi Jounouchi 605

The Dogaku-ji Temple is a Zentsu-ji sect Shingon Buddhist temple in Ishii Town. The temple’s formal name is “Tomei-zan.” It is ranked second out of the 20 Fudasho Bangai (temples not included in the official list of the temples making up the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage), and is the 11th temple visited of the 36 temples in the Shikoku Fudo Pilgrimage. The name “Dogaku-ji” (“Child’s Learning Temple”) relates to the fact that the monk Kobo Daishi studied calligraphy and other academic disciplines as child; praying at the temple was believed to bring academic success. Within the temple grounds there is a sacred spring which is reputed to have sprung forth from the ground when Kobo Daishi prayed for water to wash his ink-slab with; inside the head priest’s quarters there is a shoin-style garden (designed to be viewed from the shoin, or study) which is believed to have been created in the Muromachi period. The Dogaku-ji Temple is around 30 minutes’ walk from Ishii Station on the JR Tokushima Line.

四国霊場の別格寺院として参拝しました。かなり辺鄙な場所にある別格寺院が多い中、通りから少し外れただけで車の乗入も問題ありませんでした。少々分かり辛い駐車場から境内に向かうと特徴的な山門が目に入り、その先は広い境内が広がっていました。以前、本堂が焼失したようでしたが、その形跡は無かったことから再建が完了した模様でした。
Shosanji Temple

4.0

2 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Myouzaigunkamiyamachou Shimobun Underground 318

This temple of the Chisan sect of Shingon Buddhism is located in Kamiyama Town in Myozai County, Tokushima Prefecture, and it is the 12th temple of the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage. It is known for its position near the difficult-to-reach eighth station of Mt. Shosanji, which has an altitude of 938 meters, but nowadays there is a roadway leading to it. According to temple legend, it was founded by a pilgrim in the Asuka period. Afterward, Kukai is said to have sealed an enormous snake that had been terrorizing the villagers in a rock cavern near the summit, after which he built the temple. A three-headed statue of Daikokuten (god of wealth), said to be Kukai himself, is enshrined inside the Sanmen (three-headed) Daikoku Hall. The temple grounds contain several large cedar trees said to be hundreds of years old, and the area has been designated a Natural Monument.

境内正面に立つ本堂の左手に立つお堂に祀られているようでした。標準的な団参ツアーだと本堂と大師堂だけお詣りする為、他のお堂は素通りされる事が多いのですが、個人で参拝するとそれぞれのお堂を確認する事が出来ました。因みにおみくじの自販機はこのお堂前にありました。
Kakurinji Temple

5.0

1 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Katsuragunkatsurachou Ikuna Washigao 14

This is a Koyasan Shingon school temple in Katsuura-cho, Katsuura County in Tokushima Prefecture and is 20th temple of the 88 sacred places on the Shikoku Pilgrimage. It is located high on a mountain with a distant view of the mountains of Awaji and Wakayama as well as the Pacific Ocean and the front avenue is difficult to climb with a sharp slope called the Pilgrim Knock-down. The temple was built by Kobo Daishi in 798. It is said that he found a golden jizo bodhisattva protected by two white cranes in the forest which he placed inside a statue of the jizo bodhisattva that he made himself and this became the principal object of worship at the temple.

四国遍路3泊4日旅の二日目は20番鶴林寺と21番太龍寺を参拝します。「一に焼山、二にお鶴、三に太龍」と言われる阿波の難所で山を上り下りします。本来の歩き遍路ですと19番立江寺が出発地となりますが公共交通と徒歩で巡る私は登山道入り口の生名まで徳島駅前7:25発のバスを利用しました。バスは交通渋滞で20分程遅れ9時に遍路道を上り始めます。最初は緩やかな坂ですが水吞大師あたりから急な山道となります。本堂...
Awadeko Museum

4.0

15 Reviews

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Tokushima Tokushima-shi

This is the museum of dolls which are used in Awa Marionette Joruri theater.(This is a kind of Bunraku,Japanese traditional marionette) There are around 100 dolls are exhibited. One of the most...
Gecchozan Jigenji Temple

4.0

10 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Katsuragunkamikatsuchou Masaki Kanjoudaki 18

This temple, a place where the monk Kukai once trained, is the 20th temple on the 88 sacred places on the Shikoku Pilgrimage and the 3rd of the Shikoku Bekkaku 20 Temples. An ascetic practice known as Anazenjo designated as a Tokushima Prefectural Natural Monument is performed at the temple from March 1 to the end of November. Those who wish to try it can sign up at the temple’s office and will be guided by candle light through the limestone cave where Kukai once trained. As it involves passing through very narrow holes, we recommend checking whether you can perform the practice ahead of time.

灌頂ケ滝とか穴禅定とか・・・枝葉末節が有名になり過ぎて・・・肝心のお寺そのものが・・・堂塔もそんなに古色豊かと云う訳でもないし・・・私は何も修行のために８８か所や別格を遍路している訳ではないので・・・しんどいことや苦痛を売り物にしている寺院は現在では然程、魅力的とは私は思いません。色々なモノの考え方があるので別の感じの方もおられるでしょうが・・・。命かけて修行している訳ではないので・・・。ここはあ...
Tokushima Tengu Kyu Museum

4.5

7 Reviews

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Tokushima Tokushima-shi Kokufucho

徳島市の国府町にある天狗久資料館は初訪問です。天狗久とは明治・大正・昭和と三時代にわたり、阿波人形浄瑠璃に使用する木偶（でこ）を製作した人形師のようです！
Taisanji Temple

3.5

8 Reviews

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Tokushima Pref. Itanogunkamitachou Kanyake Oyama 4

This temple is the first of the Shikoku Bekkaku 20 Temples and the first of the Shikoku 36 Fudo Temples. Legend has it that Kanenaka, the lord of Shichijo Castle, prayed to the Taizan Kanzeon bodhisattva late at night for twenty-one days in a row to request “twice the strength of other men.” It is said that upon receiving strength unparalleled in the neighboring region, he carried a stone pagoda and a massive kagami mochi (a decorative rice cake) up from the foot of the mountain as an offering to give thanks for this gift. Based on this legend, the temple holds a well-known “chikara mochi” festival on the third Sunday of each January during which people carry large kagami mochi as a test of strength.

四国八十八箇所の巡礼序に別格寺院にも参拝しました。地図やナビを確認しただけで急カーブの続く道路が目に入ったのですが、実際に車を走らせると想像以上で、対向車があれば行き違いに苦慮する程でした。山上近くの境内に到着すると意外にも大きな寺院で、時節柄にも関わらず多くの参拝者を集めていました。因みに「仁王門」前の駐車場に車を停めるとそこから境内まで延々と石段が続く為、体力に自信が無ければ上まで車で上がった...
Temple No. 13, Dainichiji Temple

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Tokushima Pref. Tokushimashi Ichinomiyachou Nishichou 263

Located in the Ichinomiya-cho district of Tokushima City, the Dainichi-ji Temple is the 13th temple visited on the Shikoku 88-temple Pilgrimage, and the fifth temple visited on the Shikoku 33 Kannon Temples Pilgrimage. The temple’s formal name is Oguri-san Kezo-in; the temple belongs to the Daikaku-ji school of the Shingon sect of Buddhism. The name Dainichi-ji derives from the story that, in 815, when Kukai was performing the homa fire ritual in Daishi-ga-mori, the Dainichi Nyorai Buddha appeared to him and told him that, as the place where he was standing was a sacred spot, he should build a temple there; Kukai therefore carved a statue of Dainichi Nyorai as the principal object of veneration for the new temple. During the Tensho era (1573–92), the temple buildings were entirely destroyed by the armies of Motochika Chosokabe. The temple was subsequently rebuilt on the orders of Mitsutaka Hachisuka, the third lord of the Tokushima han (domain). The Dainichi-ji Temple later became the betto-ji (Buddhist temple associated with a Shinto shrine) of the Ichinomiya Shrine, and during the Edo period it was the Ichinomiya Shrine that was visited as part of the 88-temple Pilgrimage, rather than the Dainichi-ji Temple. As a result of the state-ordered separation of Shintoism and Buddhism in the Meiji period, the statue of Kannon (the Goddess of Mercy) with eleven heads that had been venerated at the Ichonomiya Shrine was moved to the Dainichi-ji Temple and became the main object of veneration there, with Dainichi Nyorai playing an ancillary role.

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The southeastern corner of Shikoku is home to Tokushima prefecture, a region celebrated for its luscious nature and the nation’s favorite Awa Odori, an energetic dance to which an annual summer festival has been dedicated. Keeping the upbeat tempo, whirlpools excite the Naruto sea off Tokushima, while inland, dramatic cliffs line the Iya Valley, promising unrivaled views of vast and vibrant scenery.