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title: Zenkoji Temple
date: 2009-04-29T17:02:23+09:00
author: Patrick Nesbitt
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# Zenkoji Temple

 

Zenkoji Temple is the most important pilgrimage site in central Honshu.

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Zenkoji Temple houses the first image of Buddha to reach Japan in the 7th century and has a 1,400-year history. The building itself is huge and has the largest thatched roof in Japan. Under the temple is a pitch-black maze visitors can enter that offers the way to nirvana for those who navigate its passageway and find the key.