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A Jodo sect temple in Sugamo founded in the mid-Edo period, enshrining Amida Buddha. Its cemetery preserves gravestones spanning from the Edo era to the Showa period, chronicling the lives of Sugamo's common people. Spring cherry blossoms draw visitors alongside pilgrims heading to Togenuki Jizo.

Nenbutsuji is a Jodo sect temple said to have been founded around 1716, during the Kyoho era of the mid-Edo period. Sugamo, situated along the Nakasendo highway—one of the five major roads of the Edo period—prospered as a post town, and the temple is believed to have been established as a center of …