Webmaster visited Ofuna Kan’non Temple. This temple is famous of the huge statue of Kan’non (the Deity of Mercy).
Access: Tokyo (local train 0:40) Ofuna (walk 0:10) @
The statue can be seen from the station.
Get out of the west gate of the station to the temple.
The entrance gate of the temple is a 3-minute walk from the station.
Then, visitors need to go up the approach slope.
Finally, visitors reach the gate of the temple. The entrance fee is for 300 yen.
But, visitors need to go up again the steps to the Kan’non statue.
The statue is about 25m in height built in 1960.
Visitors can enter the inside of the statue.
This monument is a memorial to those who died by atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Two stones from Hiroshima and Nagasaki are partially used.
Other monuments in the precincts.
The view of Ofuna City and the railway station from the precincts.
The top of Mt. Fuji was seen over the ridge of hills although there was no snow on the top. Can you see it?
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