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 é o Templo nº 21 na peregrinação dos 88 templos de Shikoku, tornando-o uma das paradas oficiais da peregrinação em Shikoku.

Tairyu-ji consagra o Bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha (Kokūzō Bosatsu) como sua imagem principal, a divindade principal venerada aqui.