This tour offers a unique opportunity to visit a quiet, uncrowded, major Buddhist temple complex, popularly known as Higashi Honganji, located within easy walking distance of Kyoto Station. Your guide, a twenty-five year resident of Japan, is American-born Buddhist priest and scholar Rev. Dr. Brian Victoria. Dr. Victoria will introduce you to the fascinating history of this temple together with the doctrines and iconography of the True Pure Land sect of Buddhism with which it is affiliated. Higashi Honganji has no entrance fee since it remains what it has been for more than four centuries, a place of pilgrimage for practicing Buddhists from throughout Japan.
The lobby of the Hotel Granvia is located on the second floor of Kyoto Station (up the escalator from the ground floor on the northern end of the station).
The lobby of the Hotel Granvia is located on the second floor of Kyoto Station (up the escalator from the ground floor on the northern end of the station).
