Mt.Chikurinji (535m) ’|—ÑŽ›ŽR)
Kouchi Town ‰ê–ÎŒS ‰Í“à’¬
		At the precinct of Chikurinji Temple

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Mt. Chikurinji, which means bamboo forest temple, is close toHiroshima Airport. After getting off at JR Nyuno Station on the eastbound Sanyo Line, cross a road (Route 432) and walk up to a housing development. Then go up the mountain for about 1.5 hours where Chikurinji Temple stands. According to the temple's old picture scrolls, in 730 a monk named Gyoki visited this mountain and found a brilliant and magnificent cherry tree. He sculpted it to make a Senju Kannon, a Buddha statue with a thousand hands, to save people from hardship. He then built a temple to store this Kannon statue which became the temple's principal image.

Chikurinji Temple, thatched with the bark of sawara trees, is surrounded by old cedar trees and a bamboo grove with a spring named Yachiyoike. This area is now a prefectural national park.

�ŸGetting there

Take a train eastbound on the JR Sanyo Line and get off at Nyuno Station. From Nyuno station, it's a 20-minute walk to the foot of the mountain and a one-hour ascent to the mountaintop.

�ŸSuggested Schedule

Hiroshima Station(8:49)===(Sanyo Line)===Saijo(9:19)===Nyuno Station(9:32)-----

----Mt. Chikurinji(11:00 -13:00)------Kochi(15:30)===(Sanyo Line)===

===Saijo Station(15:48)====Hiroshima Station(16:16)