Shoshazan Engyo-ji Temple

書寫山圓教寺 · Buddhist temple

The Japan Tourism Agency's English text records that Engyōji was established in 966 by the monk Shōkū, and that its Maniden Hall is the twenty-seventh stop on the Thirty-three Pilgrimage Sites of Western Japan.

The Maniden hall of Engyoji on Mt. Shosha in Himeji. — Yanajin33 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0Resized and compressed for web display. Not cropped.This resized file is offered under CC BY-SA 3.0, the same licence as the original.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs records the temple's Great Lecture Hall as an Important Cultural Property of the middle Muromachi period.

Hours

We do not show opening times or a charge for this temple. Its own site could not be opened over a secure connection, and the public tourism pages we checked give different charges.

We have not found opening hours published for this temple. The sources below give the other details on this page.

Admission

We have not confirmed a charge from this temple's own pages. We have no page published by the temple itself to link to, so check on the day. The sources below are public bodies.

Getting there

Shinki Bus to the Shoshazan Ropeway stop, then the ropeway from the base station to the mountain-top station

Address: 2968 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo 671-2201

Himeji Convention & Visitors Bureau — Shoshazan Engyo-ji Temple (English)

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Sources

History and background	Japan Tourism Agency — Engyōji Temple Grounds (English)
What you can see	Agency for Cultural Affairs — Engyoji Great Lecture Hall (Important Cultural Property)
Getting there	Himeji Convention & Visitors Bureau — Shoshazan Engyo-ji Temple (English)

Information checked: September 13, 2026.