Reizan-ji, Buddhist temple in Yokokawa, Japan

Reizan-ji is a Buddhist temple located in Yokokawa, organized with wooden buildings, stone pathways, and manicured gardens throughout the grounds. The layout integrates religious structures with natural landscaping, creating distinct areas for prayer, walking, and quiet observation.

Reizan-ji was founded in 1601 by Daichō, who obtained a 20,000-tsubo plot in Surugadai. In 1606 it received a 50-koku donation from Sūgen'in, the wife of Tokugawa Hidetada, and grew into a danrin study centre with many dormitories and subtemples. It moved to Yushima, then to Asakusa after the Great Fire of Meireki; the danrin lapsed under the third abbot Tenrei and was restored in 1688 under the fourth, Kakuei, before the temple moved to its present Yokokawa site in 1689 on a 10,000-tsubo plot. In 1869 it received an imperial edict naming it a prayer temple.

Reizan-ji belongs to the Jōdo (Pure Land) school, and its full name is Jōzaizan Nisonkyō-in Reizan-ji. Its main images are Shakyamuni and Amida Buddha. In the Edo period it ranked among the Kantō Eighteen Danrin, the study monasteries where Jōdo monks trained, and in 1869 it received an imperial edict naming it a chokugan-ji, a temple for imperial prayer.

Reizan-ji is a 13-minute walk from the north exit of Kinshicho Station. The temple stands in Yokokawa, in Sumida ward, on the site it has occupied since 1689.

Reizan-ji's main images are a Shakyamuni Buddha and an Amida Buddha, kept as the temple's principal objects of worship. The temple also received an imperial edict naming it a prayer site for the court in 1869, a status few neighbourhood temples in Sumida hold.