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Site 16 of the Shin-Saigoku 33 Pilgrimage — Joruri-ji in Kizugawa, famed for its National Treasure nine Amida statues and three-story pagoda

Founded 735 by Robben and revived by Jokei, who invited the Kasuga deity here — its National Treasure five-story pagoda dates from 1214

A Shingon temple near the site of Kuni-kyo, Emperor Shomu's short-lived capital that lasted only five years from 740

A Shugendo mountain temple linked to founder En no Gyoja, holding two Heian-period stone Buddhas (both Important Cultural Properties)

Traditionally founded in 729 by Gyoki, famed for its Kamakura-period three-story pagoda and beloved as the 'Hydrangea Temple'

An ancient temple founded around 680, home to a National Treasure bronze Shaka Nyorai ranked with the Asuka Great Buddha—stage of the folk tale of the grateful crab that saved a young woman from a serpent

Home to Japan's only surviving Nine-Body Amida Hall (National Treasure), housing nine Heian-era Amida statues facing a three-story pagoda across a Pure Land pond, amid the stone Buddhas of the Tono valley