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At a Glance
At 2,775 meters, the ropeway to Tairyu-ji is western Japan's longest cable car. It carries up to 101 passengers per trip and takes just 10 minutes to reach the mountaintop temple.
In July 2011, a typhoon toppled a 400-year-old cedar tree that crashed through the main hall's roof, damaging this temple that had already survived destruction by warlord Chōsokabe Motochika in the 1500s.
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At 2,775 meters, the ropeway to Tairyu-ji is western Japan's longest cable car. It carries up to 101 passengers per trip and takes just 10 minutes to reach the mountaintop temple.
In July 2011, a typhoon toppled a 400-year-old cedar tree that crashed through the main hall's roof, damaging this temple that had already survived destruction by warlord Chōsokabe Motochika in the 1500s.
Tairyu-ji is Temple No. 21 on the Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage, making it one of the official pilgrimage stops in Shikoku.
Tairyu-ji enshrines Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva (Kokūzō Bosatsu) as its main image, the principal deity worshipped here.
Anan, Tokushima Prefecture
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