Chomei-ji, Buddhist temple in Takanodai, Japan

Chomei-ji is a Shingon Buzan-ha temple in Takanodai, Nerima, Tokyo, on the site called Higashi-Koyasan. Its main hall (kondo) was rebuilt in 1904 and restored in 1971, and the Kannon hall, rebuilt in 1979, houses an eleven-faced Kannon image. A 1650 bell tower and a late-17th-century Niomon gate stand among the buildings, and stone Buddhas and towers fill the western grounds.

Chomei-ji began in 1613, when Keisan Ajari, a relative of the Later Hojo clan, built a hermitage in Takanodai to house a statue of Kobo Daishi. His nephew Mashima Shigetoshi added the Kannon hall and main hall, and in 1640 the monk Koikebo Shusan of Hasedera in Nara made an Eleven-Faced Kannon image and the temple received the name Chomei-ji. Tokugawa Iemitsu granted it shuin land in 1648. Fires struck repeatedly: a 1658 blaze burned the temple, and the main hall was lost in 1897 and rebuilt in 1904.

The temple's name, Chomei-ji, means "Temple of Long Life"; it was granted in 1640 when the monk Koikebo Shusan of Hasedera in Nara made an Eleven-Faced Kannon image here. The main image is kept in the Kannon Hall, rebuilt in 1979 after a fire. On 21 April each year the hibutsu Kobo Daishi statue in the Okunoin is unveiled, and a plant market and children's procession are held in the grounds.

Chomei-ji is a three-minute walk from Nerima-Takanodai Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, at 3-10-3 Takanodai, Nerima Ward. Visiting is free and limited to daytime hours. The stone Buddhas and towers of the Oku-no-in lie across the western part of the grounds, and the Kannon hall, rebuilt in 1979, stands among them.

The stone Buddhas and towers in the western part of the grounds were placed in 1652 to mark the first anniversary of the death of shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, modelled on the Okunoin of Mount Koya. Numbering more than anywhere else in Nerima ward, they were designated a Tokyo historic site in 1956.