Gantokuji, Buddhist temple in Kadoma, Japan

Gantokuji is a Jodo Shinshu temple of the Otani-ha school in Mido-cho, Kadoma, with the mountain name Komyo-zan and Amida Nyorai as its principal image. Its main hall, rebuilt in 1665, is an irimoya-roofed structure of 11 bays by 10, and the grounds hold a bell tower from the Kan'ei era, a 1693 four-legged gate, and a cemetery south of the main hall.

Rennyo, the eighth head of the Honganji, founded a preaching hall called Furuhashi Gobo here in 1478. In the Eiroku era (1558–1570) Jitsugo, his 23rd child, received the hall from the tenth head Shonyo and renamed it Gantokuji. In 1577 Emperor Ogimachi granted it the title of inge, and it served as a centre of the Higashi Honganji in the region until the five-temple rank was abolished.

The temple bell rings on important dates throughout the year, and local families come regularly to tend ancestral graves located on the temple grounds.

Remove your shoes before entering the temple buildings to follow Buddhist etiquette. Keep quiet during prayer times and be mindful not to disturb other visitors or monks on the grounds.

The temple's founder, Jitsugo, was the 23rd child of Rennyo, the eighth head priest of Hongan-ji, and outlived all 27 of Rennyo's children, dying at Gantokuji in 1583 at the age of 92. He was a scholar who wrote works such as the Hino Ichiryu Keizu and Rennyo Shonin Goichidai-sho. In the temple grounds south of the main hall stand the graves of the Shidehara family, including Shidehara Shinjiro, father of Prime Minister Kijuro Shidehara.