【Miyazaki Prefecture Gokase Town Sightseeing spot】西栄山Josenji Temple
Saieizan Josenji Temple is a temple of Jodo Shinshu Honganji Temple, which was founded about 400 years ago.
It is also famous as a famous place for cherry blossoms, and in Spring, the Shidarezakura (weeping cherry blossoms), which is about 300 years old, a natural monument of the prefecture in the Precincts, blooms magnificently.
It is said that this Shidarezakura (weeping cherry blossoms) was planted in the Edo period by the ninth chief priest who brought back a sapling from Gion in Kyoto on his way back from visiting the Honganji Temple in Kyoto.
It is a variant of Edohigan and is also called Itozakura, and is designated as a natural monument in Miyazaki Prefecture.
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