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 est le temple n°21 du pèlerinage des 88 temples de Shikoku, ce qui en fait l'une des étapes officielles du pèlerinage à Shikoku.

Tairyu-ji consacre le Bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha (Kokūzō Bosatsu) comme image principale, la divinité principale vénérée ici.