The main hall, where Shakyamuni Buddha is enshrined, was visited by a large number of worshippers

There is a Buddhist temple called Joshin-ji in Okusawa, Tokyo. The temple is generally known as Kuhonbutsu and is located in a residential area, which can be reached by getting off at the Tokyu Oimachi Line station of the same name and walking along the approach that begins immediately afterwards. Although it attracts many worshippers, it is not a tourist temple, so the grounds are not saturated with people. It is a good temple to visit on a stroll.

The temple grounds are much larger than the modest main gate suggests, and there are three Amida halls facing the main hall, each housing a total of nine Amida Nyorai statues, three in each hall. This is the origin of the name Kuhonbutsu (Nine Buddhist statues). Yes, the temple's common name, Kuhonbutsu, does not include Shakyamuni Buddha, who is enshrined in the main hall.

That said, it is not the statue of Amida Nyorai in the Amida Hall that attracts the most worshippers to the temple grounds, but the Shakyamuni Buddha in the main hall, which was built in 1698. People never stop coming to the main hall to see the golden Buddha Shakyamuni, and when I arrived there were many people, including parents and children, couples and married couples.

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