World Heritage in Hiraizumi: Mōtsūji’s Pure Land Paradise

The temple’s Main Hall, reconstructed in 1989 in the style of the Heian period (794–1185).

The site of Motohira’s Kondō Enryūji main hall.

The rocky islet sits at right in Ōizumi-ga-Ike, a pond in the Pure Land Garden.

The Main Hall stands near the rocky outcrop on the shore of Ōizumi-ga-Ike.

Visitors unite mind and body with a zazen meditation session. (© Mōtsūji)

The house specialty, chilled mori soba, ¥700.