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Hokkeji Temple
Category: Temple

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Hokkeji is a dignified nunnery, and one of the Three Yamato Monzeki. Empress Kōmyō had it built on the site of the residence of Fujiwara-no Fuhito, as the head of all provincial nunneries. It was called Hokkemetsuzai-no-tera and reached its peak, being equipped with a complete seven-structured temple complex. In the main hall or hondō, rebuilt in the 16th century, the beautiful standing statue of the eleven-faced Kannon modeled after Empress Kōmyō is housed.

Address:

882 Hokkejicho, Nara

Access:

7 minutes by bus from JR Nara Station.
15 minutes by bus from Kintetsu Nara Station.
○a three-minute walk from the Hokkeji bus stop
8 minutes by bus from Kintetsu Yamato-Saidaiji Station
○a three-minute walk from the Hokkeji bus stop