Ikaruga Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Mar)
Horyuji Temple Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Mar)
Not many tourists go there so that you can enjoy the peaceful time. The whole ticket is ¥1500 for 3 parts visit, strongly recommended. You can see the oldest building in the west of the temple, including the main hall for Buddha and the 5 storey tower. Better sit down and feel the peaceful. There is the other memorial hall in the east side of the temple.
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Nara | In addition to cute deer, there are the world's oldest wooden buildings
The reason why I traveled thousands of miles to Horyuji is because it is the oldest existing wooden building group in the world.
📖Horyuji History
👨🦲Speaking of its establishment, we have to mention Prince Shotoku.
👨🦲Prince Shotoku, a famous figure in Japanese history.
It is said that Prince Shotoku could speak as soon as he was born, had the wisdom of a saint, successfully unified the country, made people submit to the rule of the emperor, and established Buddhism as the state religion.
👨🦲Prince Shotoku is deeply loved by the Japanese, and his portrait is printed on 10,000 yen bills.
👨🦲At that time, because Prince Shotoku often came to the temple to understand Buddhism, Horyuji was also called "Horyuji of Learning".
⛩️Oldest Wooden Building
🌟Horyuji was built in 607 AD, during the Sui Dynasty in China, and has been 1400 years since then.
🌟Buddhism was introduced to China around the 1st century AD during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
🌟At that time, China's wooden buildings were very developed, and people knew how to build towers (buildings with two or more floors).
🌟Adding a stupa shape to the roof of a high-rise building became the tower of a Buddhist temple.
✅Horyuji
👍Horyuji covers a large area, and its layout and structure are deeply influenced by the architecture of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in China, divided into east and west courtyards.
👍【West Courtyard】
🌟The most important part of the entire temple
🌟Five-story pagoda, Golden Hall, Great Treasure Hall, etc., have the world's oldest wooden buildings.
👍【East Courtyard】
🌟The scale is much smaller, this was once the sleeping palace of Prince Shotoku, and it houses the secret Buddha Guanyin who saves the world.
👍【Great Treasure Hall】
🌟Located in the middle, the Great Treasure Hall stores many precious Buddha statues and Buddhist utensils.
🚌Transportation
🌟Departing from Kyoto, you can buy a Kintetsu 1-day pass
🌟The fare is 1500 yen, covering the Kintetsu line from Kyoto Station to Nara (cannot take the express)
💰Purchase location: Kintetsu Service Center at Kyoto Station, need to show passport
🚄Transportation: Kintetsu Tsuge Station B31-Nara Bus-Horyuji Front-Walk 5min
⏰The bus to Horyuji is one hour apart, so you need to wait a long time
Horyuji | The world's oldest wooden building
|The world's oldest wooden building. Nara 'World Cultural Heritage', the world's oldest wooden building
'Horyuji' 'Saiin Garan'🕊️
'Five-storied Pagoda' 'Golden Hall': Asuka period (China Sui and Tang Dynasties), 1400 years of history
'Daibutsu-den': Mainly from the Asuka period, Nara period, Muromachi period, Buddha statues.
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'Yume Shoden': National treasures are also stored here, including the statue of Prince Shotoku.
Nara period, Shotoku sect 'Horyuji', Chugu-ji, Ikaruga Town
As the oldest surviving Buddhist temple in Japan, the Horyuji Temple in Nara is the first World Heritage Site to be recognized by UNESCO in Japan. There are more than 3,000 cultural relics in the temple that are only defined as national treasures and important cultural property. The
Falun Temple was founded in 607 AD by Prince Shengde. It was originally introduced to Japan at the beginning of Buddhism, so the name of the temple contains the meaning of the Dharma.
Falung Temple is the oldest wooden building in the world, but its value is not in the old, but in the ancient Japanese architectural techniques and wisdom that have been tempered by years.
Whether it is the Dream Hall of the Eastern Academy or the Zhongmen, Jintang and Wuzhong Pagodas of the West Courtyard, although the Tang Dynasty architecture is emulated, now in China, the same period of architecture has withered as the river has passed away, and the preciousness of the Falun Temple is even more precious. .
In addition to the architecture, several statues of Sakyamuni built by Prince Shengde in Jintang are even rare treasures, which laid the status of the Horyu Temple in Buddhism.
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