Ganjo-ji Temple

A temple with kindergarten near takigawa station

Original Text

A temple located about a 5-minute walk from JR Takigawa Station. It is located on the street in front of the station where shops are lined up. It is a Shinshu Otani-ha temple surrounded by large roofs and snow-shielded sash. It is a temple with a kindergarten.

The roof of the main hall is steel plate roof, and the tile roof temple is not in Hokkaido.

Original Text

About 5 minutes walk from JR Takigawa Station. The entrance to the precincts faces Suzuran-dori. It is a temple of the Shinshu Otani school, but the roof is steel plate-hipped. It's a snowy country, so it's not a tile roof like Honshu. The door at the entrance of the main hall is a characteristic of a snowy country with double weights. Why is the sculptures on the main hall painted white with eyes and teeth?

A sculpture of the main hall with some white colors

Original Text

About 5 minutes walk from JR Takigawa station. There is an entrance to the precincts on Suzuran-dori. A temple of the Shinshu Otani school. Like a snowy country, the door at the entrance to the main hall is doubled. Rental warehouses were lined up toward the surrounding roads, and there was a relatively large kindergarten on the premises. It was impressive that the sculpture eyes and teeth on the main hall were painted white.