Saioku-ji, Buddhist temple in Suruga-ku, Japan.

Saioku-ji is a Rinzai Zen temple of the Myōshin-ji branch in Mariko, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka. Its main image is a statue of Jūichimen Kannon. The garden, a National Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty, uses borrowed scenery to incorporate surrounding mountains and is patterned after the garden of Ginkaku-ji in Kyoto. It includes an artificial hill with a moon-viewing stone where the poet Sōchō sat to compose verse.

Sōchō, a renga poet and adviser to Imagawa Yoshitada, built a hermitage called Shibaya-ken here in 1504. Imagawa Ujichika converted it into a temple. After the Imagawa clan fell, the Tokugawa shogunate granted the temple a shuinjō, a vermilion-seal charter.

Sōchō, a renga poet and adviser to Imagawa Yoshitada, lived in a hermitage here before the temple was founded. The garden's artificial hill has a "moon-viewing stone" where he sat to compose poetry, and the temple was nicknamed "temple of the moon" in haiku by Tōkaidō travelers.

Public buses run from the main railway station and stop near the temple, with a short walk completing the journey. It is best to wear comfortable shoes as the final approach involves walking through the bamboo grove area.

The garden reproduces the garden of Ginkaku-ji in Kyoto and uses borrowed scenery, incorporating surrounding mountains. It has an artificial hill with a moon-viewing stone where the poet Sōchō sat to compose verses. The temple was nicknamed the temple of the moon or the temple of bamboo in literature.