Eifuku-ji, Buddhist temple in Nakagyō-ku, Japan

Eifuku-ji is a Jōdo-shū Nishiyama Fukakusa school temple on the Shinkyōgoku shopping street in Nakagyō-ku, known as Tako Yakushi-dō. Its main hall enshrines a stone Yakushi Nyorai called Tako Yakushi, and the grounds also hold a Kuri, the Myōshin-ji Amida hall, a bell donated by Matsudaira Chikamasa, Toyokawa Inari, Fukuchi Inari and Akiba Gongen.

Eifuku-ji was founded in 1181, when the monk Rinshū enshrined a stone Yakushi Nyorai dug up on Mount Hiei and built a six-bay hall at Nijo Muromachi. It became an imperially commissioned temple in 1441. In 1590 Toyotomi Hideyoshi moved it to its present site on Shinkyōgoku, and in 1872 the new street cut its grounds down to today's size.

The temple's popular name, Tako Yakushi, comes from a legend: the monk Zenkō bought an octopus for his ill mother, and when accused, prayed until the octopus turned into eight scrolls of the Lotus Sutra and its lapis light cured her. The name may also derive from "Taku Yakushi", after a pond at the temple's former site. Eifuku-ji is the 12th stop on the Kyoto Twelve Yakushi pilgrimage.

Eifuku-ji faces the covered Shinkyōgoku shopping arcade, so the temple grounds are entered directly from the street. The closest station is Hankyū Kyoto-Kawaramachi, about a 5-minute walk; Keihan Gion-Shijō is about 13 minutes and the Tōzai subway line's Kyōto Shiyakusho-mae about 11 minutes. The temple is number 12 on the Kyoto Twelve Yakushi pilgrimage.

The temple bell was donated by Matsudaira Chikamasa to the Myōshin-ji hall within the grounds, which Eifuku-ji administers; that hall, dedicated to Amida, was moved here during the Meiji era. The precinct also holds a Toyokawa Inari, a Fukuchi Inari and an Akiba Gongen.