法園寺, Buddhist temple in Japan

Hōon-ji is a Shingon Omuro-ha temple in the Inadera district of Amagasaki, with the mountain name Inano-san. Its main image is a hidden Yakushi Nyorai statue from the late Heian period. The temple grounds include a main hall rebuilt in 1757 by Hōin Jōkō and a small hall reconstructed in 1756.

According to temple tradition, the Indian monk Hōdō founded Hōon-ji in 645, the first year of the Taika era, and Gyōki restored it in 741. It lost its estates and buildings to fire in 1321 during the Genkō War, was rebuilt, then burned completely in 1577 in the war between Araki Murashige and Oda Nobunaga. The main image was later found in a pond, a small hall was rebuilt in 1756 and the main hall the following year; the temple lapsed in 1873 and was revived by its parishioners in 1878.

Hōon-ji belongs to the Omuro branch of Shingon Buddhism, not the Pure Land sect. Its mountain name is Inanoyama, and its principal image is a hidden Yakushi Nyorai statue from the late Heian period. Temple tradition links the site to the Indian monk Hōdō, who is said to have founded it in 645, and to Gyōki, who revived it in 741.

Hōon-ji is reached on foot in about ten minutes from JR Inadera Station on the Fukuchiyama Line, not from Amagasaki Station. The temple stands in the Inadera district of Amagasaki, next to the site of the large temple Inadera with which temple tradition links it.

The temple's founding legend credits the Indian monk Hōdō with establishing it in 645, the first year of the Taika era. The main image, a hidden Yakushi Nyorai statue from the late Heian period, was later found in a pond after the temple burned in 1577 during Araki Murashige's war with Oda Nobunaga.