️📍 Atago Buddhist Temple, Kyoto
2-5 Torii Motanaya Cho, Kyoto City, Yukyo-ku, Tokyo Prefecture
🎫 ticket: 400 yen
🕗 Time: 8:00-16:30

You can walk from JR Saga Arashiyama (a bit far), it is recommended to take the Kameoka - Saga line of the Arashiyama Train, get off the Arashiyama Train station, and after visiting the Arashiyama bamboo forest attractions, take a bus or walk there. If you walk there, you can pass the old house with its thick thatched roof and moss covered with age: Ayuchaya Hiranoya Tea House (said to be 400 years old).

Today sorting things suddenly saw when I went to love rock read Buddhist temple booklet (seal pattern is super cute!!) Immediately again when the wonderful mood of the tour! I would like Amway to share this temple in Arashiyama, Kyoto.

The abbot of the temple is an Internet celebrity himself, doing all kinds of pop art. They also have their own official website. Visitors to the temple are welcome to take photos and tweet to raise their profile. In the 1990s, the temple began to make statues of arhats, all carved by ordinary people, with different images and unrestrained imagination.

There are now more than a thousand different statues, and if you have enough time to look at each one, you can always find something particularly interesting.

The brochure says that the temple has 1,200 statues of Arhats carved by different worshippers, each with a very different style and expression. "Twelve hundred arhat statues are arranged together in a rich expression, which makes visitors feel peaceful and is loved by people as a temple of healing."


Very primitive and simple temple, there are many small stone statues, temple on the mountain, climb up a little tired, but worth the trip. The flow of people here is very small, it is recommended to go down the mountain, through the countryside, to the ridge wild bamboo forest path behind the Tenryuji Temple, all the way through the Chang Shiguang Temple, full of surprises to explore.

This must be the cutest temple I've ever visited ️ Every little moss monk is selling cute, 1200 arhat each is a meme, said he is the cutest temple in Japan, no one objects, the whole temple is not many people to visit it is great.

From stepping into the temple, I felt the charm of the temple, and the mood gradually became warm and peaceful. Looking at, greeting and chatting with these cute arhats, people constantly feel warm and healing, sometimes even by some cute Arhats can not help but laugh out loud, too happy!

You can also enter the temple to watch the monks pray. Because of the remote location of the temple, there are few tourists. We were disappointed with the bamboo forest here, but this temple is relaxing! The temple is really nice and worth coming to!

There are some mossy arhats that look furry, which people can't help but want to touch. The process of touching is also extremely healing (¯ ¯). I have gained infinite love and energy here.

It is worth mentioning that Atago read Buddhist Temple gate of the hotel called what catsu の house, feel quite good!