Renge-ji Temple, Buddhist temple in Sakyo-ku, Japan.

Renge-ji is a Buddhist temple in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, characterized by a traditional garden design featuring a pond surrounded by maple trees. Carefully positioned stones in the water create reflective patterns that enhance the calm design of the temple grounds.

Originally founded as a Jishu sect temple at Shichijo Shiokoji, Renge-ji was rebuilt in 1662 by Chikayoshi Imae. Imae was a retainer of the Maeda clan who established the temple at its current location.

The temple name comes from a ruined Tendai temple of the same name that once stood on this land, founded by the monk Eshin. The bell tower's bronze bell carries an inscription naming the second Obaku patriarch, Mokuan Shoto, and follows the same form as the bell at Uji's Manpuku-ji. Two Renge-ji-style stone lanterns stand before the main hall, a type with a hexagonal base carved with lotus petals and a nine-tiered roof, favoured by tea masters from the mid-Edo period onward.

Visitors reach the temple via the Eizan Electric Railway to Miyake Hachiman Station, followed by a seven-minute walk to the temple grounds. The route passes through a quiet residential neighborhood with well-marked signage.

The pond itself is cut in the shape of the character for water, while the boat stone near its right front is carved as an arriving boat rather than a departing one, a reversal rare among gardens that place boat stones. Only the turtle's head stone survives of the turtle island, its limbs lost; a stone bridge still links it to the shore.