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 es el Templo No. 21 en la peregrinación de los 88 templos de Shikoku, lo que lo convierte en una de las paradas oficiales de peregrinación en Shikoku.

Tairyu-ji consagra al Bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha (Kokūzō Bosatsu) como su imagen principal, la deidad principal venerada aquí.