Chōkō-dō, Buddhist temple in Shimogyō-ku, Japan.

Chōkō-dō is a Buddhist temple in the Shimogyō-ku district of Kyoto, Japan, made up of several traditional wooden buildings connected by covered passageways. The complex sits in a quiet neighborhood a short walk from the major shrines of Nishi Honganji.

Chōkō-dō began as the private Buddha hall of retired emperor Go-Shirakawa at his仙洞御所, and was rebuilt and named in 1183 when he moved to the Rokujō-dono residence of Taira no Nariakira. In 1191 Go-Shirakawa donated 42 provinces and 89 estates to the hall, passing it to his daughter Princess Kinshi before his death; these lands became the Chōkō-dō-ryō. The hall burned in 1188, 1208, 1222, 1273 and 1277, moved to Tsuchimikado-Aburamonochō after the Bun'ei fire, and was relocated to its present site in 1588 under Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Kyoto reorganisation. The present buildings date from after the 1864 Kinmon incident fire.

The name Chōkō-dō originally meant a hall for lecturing on the Lotus Sutra and invoking Amida, and several halls shared it; Emperor Go-Shirakawa's became the best known. The temple belongs to the Seizan Jōdo-shū school and honours him: a wooden seated portrait of the retired emperor is kept in the Mieidō. The main image is a set of Amida and two attendants.

The temple is easiest to reach on foot from the Nishi Honganji shrines, which makes a natural starting point for the visit. Going in the morning gives you the best chance of seeing the buildings without many other visitors around.

The temple's name was originally a generic term, Hokke Chōkō Mida Zanmai-dō, for halls where the Lotus Sutra was lectured and Amida was invoked; several such private chapels existed. Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa's became the most famous, so "Chōkō-dō" came to mean this one. Its estates, the Chōkō-dō-ryō, once numbered about 200 holdings and passed to the Jimyōin line.