Yōtaku-ji, Buddhist temple in Sanda, Japan.

Yōtaku-ji is a Sōtō Zen temple on a highland site in the mountains of Sanda, near the old border between Settsu and Tanba provinces. Its main hall, rebuilt in 1778, houses seated statues of Shakyamuni, Dainichi and Amida Buddhas. The grounds include a bell tower, the 1994 Myōkō-kaku with a zazen hall and Gandhara sculpture room, and a three-storey stone pagoda.

Yōtaku-ji was founded in 1370 on Mount Mikuni, at the border of Settsu and Tanba provinces, when Hosokawa Yoriyuki had seven halls built by order of Emperor Go-En'yū; the monk Tsūgen Jakurei was invited as founding abbot. The temple became an imperial prayer site. A fire around 1770 destroyed the halls, and the founder's hall, main hall and kitchen quarters were rebuilt in 1778.

The temple belongs to the Sōtō school and is a direct branch temple of Sōjiji in Yokohama. Its founder, the Zen master Tsūgen Jakurei, is linked to 8,900 temples of the Tsūgen faction, and in 1629 the Edo shogunate appointed Yōtaku-ji to oversee monks at Sōtō temples in Tanba, Tango, Settsu, Harima and Tajima. Monks living here eat buckwheat noodles, now sold as Eitakuji soba.

The temple stands at 211 Yōtaku-ji, Sanda, in the mountains near the former border of Settsu and Tanba provinces. From Sanda Station on the JR Fukuchiyama Line or Kobe Electric Railway Sanda Line, buses take about 40 minutes to the Yōtaku-jishita stop, right by the temple. By car it is about 13 km south of the Tannan-Sasayamaguchi interchange or 18 km north of the Kobe-Sanda interchange.

The temple name is read Yōtaku-ji in the Buddhist go-on reading, but the place name written with the same characters is read Eitakuji in kan-on. The temple also runs the Sanda Reien cemetery and the Sanda Animal Cemetery on its 6-chōbu temple forest.