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Higashi Hongan-ji Temple: what's nearby, how to get there and when to go · 2026

Higashi Hongan-ji is one of two dominant sub-sects of Jōdo Shinshū in Japan and abroad, the other being Nishi Hongan-ji, the "Western Temple of the Original Vow".

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