Tōkōin, Buddhist temple in Toyonaka, Japan.

Tōkōin is a Sōtō Zen temple in Toyonaka, entered through a plain mountain gate in the southwest; the path passes the hagi garden, then turns right toward the main hall in the northeast, with the cemetery adjoining it. The main hall, rebuilt in 1999 after the 1995 earthquake, houses a wooden Shaka Nyorai statue 7.3 cm tall, carved from a single piece of wood with its lotus base.

Founded in 735, according to tradition, by the monk Gyōki, who taught cremation here and offered a statue of Yakushi Nyorai with bush clover. Originally a Yakushi-dō in Nakanoshima, it became a Sōtō Zen temple in 1681 under the name Tōkōin. In 1914 it moved to its present site in Toyonaka at the request of Hankyū railway founder Kobayashi Ichizō.

The temple is known as Hagi no tera, or Bush Clover Temple, for the clover planted throughout its grounds. A festival is held from 15 to 25 September each year, and a stele on the grounds commemorates a haiku by Masaoka Shiki praising the flowers.

The grounds are easy to walk around since the buildings are close together and the paths between them are short. A visit works best in dry weather, as parts of the site are open to the sky.

The traditional storehouse on the grounds is a reminder that temples in Japan once served as community centers for surrounding villages. Buildings like this one are now rarely found in good condition next to places of worship.