Bishamonten - Kagurazaka - Kodaman’s J-TRIP

If you ask somebody where there is Zenkoku ji temple at Kagurazaka, many people might not find it out.

If you ask people, however, where there is Bishamonten, they might answer it.

Zenkoku ji temple is well known as Kagurazaka Bishamonten or Bishamonsama.

(Usually the stone gardians in shrines are dogs sometimes foxes but tigers here.)

=Zenkoku ji temple = 

[History]

It was built at Nihonbashi Bakurocho in 1595. Fires happened many times during Edo period

and this temple was unavoidably moved from Bakurocho to Koujimachi, then reconstructed in Kagurazaka in 1792.

The name Bishamon ten was originally from the god named Bishurabana in India.

It means “Listen to all” and It has been worshiped as a god of riches.  After coming to Japan,

Bishamonten has been worshiped as a god of Plenty and Courage.

It  has been set as one of the seven-lucky-gods of  Yamanote area.

Seven lucky gods(Shinjyuku Yamanote’s circuit) - Zenkoku  ji temple, Kyo-ou ji temple, Itsukushima shrine, Eifuku ji temple, Hozen ji temple,Taiso ji temple, Inari kiou shrine.

[Address]  5-36, Kagurazaka, Shinjyuku-ku

[Access] 

7 min from JR Iidabashi station west exit

5 min from Metro Iidabashi station - B3 exit (Nanboku or Yurakucho line)

6 min from Kagurazaka station - A1 exit (Tozai line)  

6 min from Ushigome Kagurazaka station - A3 exit(Ooedo line)

[Officeial WEB] http://www.kagurazaka-bishamonten.com/