Amida-ji, Buddhist temple in Kamigyo-ku, Japan

Amida-ji is a Buddhist temple near Teramachi street featuring a central gate, garden areas, a bell tower, and a main hall housing Amida Buddha statues. The main hall serves as the spiritual center of the complex.

Founded in 1555 by the Jōdo-shū priest Gyokuyo Seigyoku at Sakamoto in Ōmi Province, the temple later moved to Imadegawa-Ōmiya in Kamigyō after Seigyoku gained the patronage of Oda Nobunaga. In 1588 Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Kyoto reorganisation brought it to its present site on Teramachi. A fire on 25 November 1675 destroyed Nobunaga's wooden statue and relics; what survived was transferred to Daiun-in.

Every year on June 2, the date of Nobunaga's death at Honnō-ji, the temple holds a memorial service; the fourth lord of the Tsuyama domain, Mori Naganari, performed this rite annually and also conducted the hundredth anniversary of Nobunaga's death. After the Mori family's attainder, the tea-offering donation ceased. The temple also holds the graves of the Mori brothers Ranmaru, Bōmaru and Rikimaru, who died with Nobunaga.

Amida-ji stands at 14 Tsuruyama-chō, Teramachi-dōri Imadegawa-agaru, in Kamigyō-ku. The nearest station is Demachiyanagi on the Keihan Ōtō line or the Eizan main line, about 17 minutes on foot. The precinct is compact: the main hall, pond, garden, bell tower and gate sit close together, and the graves lie in the cemetery area.

In 1917 an imperial envoy visited and officially recognized the temple's grave as the true mausoleum of Oda Nobunaga. The priest Seigyoku is said to have gone to burning Honnō-ji in 1582 and carried back Nobunaga's ashes, then gathered the remains of his son Nobutada from Nijō Shin-gosho and buried them beside him.