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This is a Japanese-style guesthouse located within the grounds of Saifukuji Temple. Meals are a combination of local cuisine and vegetarian vegetarian dishes made with locally sourced ingredients. Morning services begin at 7:00 and last about 40 minutes, including a sermon by the head priest.

It is located inside Mount Yudono, at the end of a long drive up a mountain road. It is a sacred place for ancient mountain worship and is famous for its mummified monks.The blanket had the Heart Sutra written on it. Thanks to that, I was able to sleep soundly at night.

This is a shrine stay with a history of about 150 years. A goma (fire) prayer ceremony is held in the morning. Meals are shojin vegetarian cuisine. There is a hot spring bath available 24 hours a day.

This is a shrine stay with a history of about 300 years. You can stay in a building that is about 100 years old. Dinner are prepared using seasonal local ingredients. The bath is an artificial mineral spring and is available 24 hours a day.

This shrine is located on Mount Chokai, one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan. There is a shrine lodging facility built for climbers.

Fugen-in is a temple located in Oma, at the northernmost tip of Honshu, the tip of the Shimokita Peninsula. Within the temple grounds, which cover 10,000m2, there is a lodging facility that only accepts one group per day. The monk is very young and will teach you zazen and copying sutras.

This shrine is known for its beautiful grounds lined with red torii gates. There is accommodation for 300 people.

Mount Osorezan is a sacred mountain located on the Shimokita Peninsula at the northernmost end of the main island of Honshu. The shukubo's rooms are as clean as any hotel room. In the precinct, there are four hot springs, each with different effects.

This shukubo is located right next to the entrance of the approach to Mount Haguro, so enjoys the best location among the temple lodgings on Mount Haguro. The building is a stately private house with a thatched roof. I was welcomed warmly in the home-like atmosphere.

Ikutabo is a shukubo run by the son of the Shinto priest and his kind mother. It is more like a private inn. As it is located closer to the starting point for a climb than many other shukubo lodgings lining up along the street, it is convenient for worshiping.