Sefuku-ji Temple, Buddhist temple on Mount Makio in Izumi, Japan

Sefuku-ji is a Tendai Buddhist temple on the slope of Mount Makio, at an elevation of about 475 meters. Its single-story main hall, rebuilt in the Ansei era (1854–1860), has a gently sloped roof of pale green tiles topped by a small dark finial. Five vertical banners in pink, yellow, white, blue, and purple hang across the dark wooden facade, and a stone lantern with a metal top stands in front.

According to the Makio-san Daiengi of 1360, the monk Gyōman founded the temple during Emperor Kinmei's reign (539–571). It became a Southern Court base in the Nanboku-chō period, and Oda Nobunaga burned the whole complex in 1581. Toyotomi Hideyori helped rebuild it in 1603, but a forest fire in 1845 destroyed all but the Niōmon gate; the main hall dates from 1854–1860.

Sefuku-ji is the fourth stop on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, and its pilgrimage image is a standing Jūichimen Kannon flanked by a Miroku Bosatsu and a Monju Bosatsu in the main hall. The temple's name comes from the legend of the monk Hōkai, who enshrined a Kannon he had carved after a guest monk walked across the sea. The Kannon hall holds 33 statues modelled on the main images of the pilgrimage's other stops.

From the Makiosan observation centre car park, about 100 ordinary cars fit, a few dozen metres lead to the trailhead, then roughly 30 minutes of steep stone steps climb about 200 metres to the main hall at around 475 metres elevation. The route is counted among the harshest approaches of the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage. The Makioyama bus stop is served only by the on-demand Choisoko Izumi service, reached by connecting from Nanka buses at Nōka or Izumi Aobadai.

Old stone walls covered in moss lie scattered across the mountainside and mark the sites of former sub-temples. These remains give a sense of how widespread the religious community once was here.