Saimyoji, Buddhist temple in Mima, Japan

Saimyoji is a Shingon Daikakuji-school temple in Wada, Mima, Tokushima Prefecture, with a main hall rebuilt in 2024 after a fire in 1879. Its grounds hold a stone-pillar gate, a main gate, a goma hall, a 33-Kannon hall, a treasure hall, a bell tower and a columbarium. The treasure hall keeps a wooden Bishamonten standing statue from the late Heian period, 151.6 cm tall and carved from a single hinoki block.

Founded by Gyōki during the Tenpyō era (729–748) as Saikōji, the temple stood 200 m northeast of its present site. It moved here in the early Edo period and was renamed Saimyōji, after a legend that Hōjō Tokiyori, the Saimyōji-nyūdō, stayed at the earlier temple. The main hall burned in 1879 and was rebuilt in 2024.

Locals call Saimyoji "Hagi-dera" because bush clover blooms across the grounds from mid-September. The temple's name comes from a legend in its origin record that the Kamakura-era lay monk Hojo Tokiyori stayed here. It is stop 33 on the Awa Saigoku Thirty-Three Kannon pilgrimage and stop 3 on the Shikoku Thirty-Six Fudo pilgrimage.

From Awa-Kawashima Station on the Tokushima Line, take a bus and get off at Senbaisho-shita, then walk about 20 minutes to the temple. The grounds are visited on foot, so allow time for the walk and wear shoes suited to walking.

Locals call Saimyoji "Hagi-dera" because bush clover blooms throughout the grounds from around mid-September. The temple's name comes from a legend recorded in the Saimyoji engi that the Kamakura-era lay monk Hojo Tokiyori stayed here.