Site of Aioidō

This is the place where Minamoto no Yoritomo and the priest Monga met in secret to discuss the revival of the Minamoto clan. It is said that Monga urged Yoritomo here to defeat the Taira and repeatedly pressed him to resolve to act.
However, after the Meiji Restoration the hall was abolished, and before long it fell into ruin.

Buddha Path

These statues were placed here to console the spirits of unclaimed travelers who died in this area.
Every year they hold memorial services during the spring and autumn equinoctial weeks and pray for the safety of visitors.
To commemorate his meeting with Monga, Yoritomo had a hall built here and enshrined Kannon Bodhisattva. This came to be called the so‑called “Aioidō.”
In Kenkyu 3 (1192), after destroying the Taira and the Fujiwara and establishing the Kamakura shogunate, Yoritomo did not forget the day he met Monga and donated two hundred koku of temple land to Aioidō.