Kaburai-ji Temple, Buddhist temple in Kita-ku, Japan

Kaburai-ji is a Buddhist temple in the Kita-ku district of Kobe, Japan, featuring curved tile roofs and wooden structures across several connected buildings. The grounds also include open garden spaces that sit between the buildings.

According to temple tradition, Prince Shōtoku founded Kaburai-ji in 581, the 10th year of Emperor Bidatsu, on the mountain where his mother Anahobe no Hashihito was born; a whistling arrow (kabura-ya) was offered, giving the temple its name. Kūkai is said to have dug the Dokko-sui well in the Heian period. The temple burned in the Nanboku-chō wars and again in an Edo-period wildfire, was rebuilt by Yūa Shōnin in 1862, and was destroyed in 1873 when a group from Sanda calling itself the Tenchūgumi attacked temples; the surviving honzon and Taishi-dō were moved elsewhere and the temple lapsed. Kuni Asaakira visited in autumn 1955, and rebuilding began with Nakamura Kōryū's arrival in 1959.

The temple's common name, Kanraku-ji (Kagura-ji), and its founding legend tie it to a sacred mountain where Prince Shotoku's mother, Anahobe no Hashihito, is said to have been born; a kaburaya whistling arrow was offered at the founding, giving the temple its name. The pond grows ancient lotus found by Oga Ichiro at a Jomon site.

Kaburai-ji is at 1078-1 Ikuno, Dojo-cho, Kita-ku, Kobe. From JR Dojo Station on the Takarazuka Line it is about a 20-minute walk; from Sanda Station (JR Fukuchiyama Line and Kobe Electric Railway Sanda Line) it is about 10 minutes by taxi. The temple grounds border the Muko-no-dai golf course to the north and east.

The temple's name comes from a kaburaya, a whistling arrow, said to have been offered when Prince Shotoku founded the temple in 581. The pond in the grounds grows Oga lotus, a ancient variety that botanist Oga Ichiro raised from seeds found at a Jomon site.