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This is a shukubo of Myoshin-ji temple. The building is neat and clean and offers complete facilities. We enjoyed a very comfortable stay there. We ate in the restaurant inside the building as we had made reservation. The next morning, a monk showed us around the grounds of Myoshinji Temple.

This is the head temple of the Eigen-ji school of the Rinzai sect. It is an old temple built in 1361. Eigen-ji temple is also deeply related to devil's tongue. The shojin vegetarian cuisine they serve at the shukubo is also full of devil's tongue jelly.

This temple was established by Saicho in 788 and has been called the Mother of Japanese Buddhism as it produced so many great priests. Shukubo Enryaku-ji Kaikan is located near the Konponchudo, which serves a central role in Mount Hiei. The morning services are conducted in the Konponchudo hall, a national treasure.

This temple offers full-fledged zen ascetic training experiences. Training of various periods from one night training on Saturday and Sunday to the short training program for three nights four days, as well as the long term training programs of 1 month or longer, are available at request.

This is an accommodation facility located in the forest in the precinct of Ohmijingu shrine. As the first shrine with a clock in Japan. This shukubo does not offer religious experiences for guests, but you can freely participate in the various festivals and religious events.

This is a shrine registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as the center of Kumano worship lasting from the Heian period (794 to 1185). Zuihoden, the shukubo, is located beneath the stone stairs leading up to the main sanctuary of the Kumano-hongu Taisha.

This is a place of Shugendo opened by practitioners in a mountain. The shukubo serves as a youth hostel in which you share rooms with other people.The head priest and his wife are very frank. When I stayed there, We talked about a lot of things and took pictures together to commemorate the stay.

This is a grand ascetic training Mecca around the Nachi-no-Taki waterfall, with a drop of 133 meters. As a sacred place lasting more than 1,600 years, this temple is registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The room I stayed in was a 6-tatami mat Japanese style room with a TV set, an electric fan and a yukata robe.

Shigisan Chogosonshi-ji temple is an old temple, which is said to have been founded by Prince Shotoku (574 to 622). Senju-in is the oldest among all the temples here. The shukubo is famous for its shojin vegetarian cuisine called Teppatsu, which was very delicious.

I took a taxi cab from Oji Station. It took about 15 minutes to the parking place below Gyokuzo-in. It was a clean and modern facility and the shukubo staff welcomed me politely. The morning religious service starts from 3:00 in the Yokuyu-do followed by the Goma prayer from a little past five in the morning.