船宿寺, Buddhist temple in Gose, Japan

Senshukuji is a Shingon Buddhist temple of the Koyasan school on a hillside in Gose, Nara Prefecture, with the mountain name Iozan and the healing Buddha Yakushi Nyorai as its principal image. Its grounds hold the main hall, a bell tower, a statue of Kobo Daishi, the shrine Iwafune Myojin, a Benten pond and shrine, and a pond-strolling garden in the Enshu style.

According to temple tradition, the monk Gyoki, while visiting the Katsuragi area, was told in a dream by an old man to enshrine a Yakushi Nyorai statue on a boat-shaped rock east of the site. In 725, the second year of the Jinki era, Gyoki found the rock as described and built a hermitage beside it, naming it Senshukuji. This account is the temple's founding legend.

The name Senshukuji (船宿寺, "boat-lodging temple") comes from the boat-shaped rock Gyoki was told of in a dream; he built a hermitage beside the stone he found and gave the temple its name. The temple is the 22nd stop on the Kansai Flower Temples pilgrimage (関西花の寺二十五霊場), between Taimadera Sainin (21) and Kongoji (23).

The temple is best visited during daylight hours and sits on a hillside, so expect stairs and uneven ground. Wearing good shoes and allowing time to walk slowly through the gardens and pathways is advisable.

Senshukuji is stop 22 on the Kansai Flower Temple pilgrimage route of 25 sacred sites, between Taimadera Sain-in (21) and Kongoji (23). The temple also keeps a rhododendron grove and a camellia and Kirishima azalea garden alongside its azaleas.