Temple · Sakyo
Shourinin
勝林院
Shourinin is a Tendai temple in Ohara, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, and one of the temples of Gyozan Ohara-dera. Its official site records that Jakugen founded it in 1013 as a nembutsu training hall using shomyo chanting. About ninety years later Ryonin completed the Ohara school of Tendai shomyo, and the area became a centre for its study and transmission. The present main hall was rebuilt in 1778, built entirely of zelkova wood with a shingled roof. Its principal image, a seated Amida Nyorai, is known as the Amida of Proof after the Ohara Debate. The temple is about a ten-minute walk from Ohara bus stop.
Good to know before you go
- notice.topic.q_who:shorin-in
- Shorin-in: the City of Kyoto's official 2026 New Year's Eve bell list does not say who may take part, or whether foreign visitors and non-worshippers can ring the bell. ↗
- notice.topic.q_ticket:shorin-in
- Shorin-in's New Year's Eve bell requires no numbered tickets. ↗
- notice.topic.q_cost:shorin-in
- Shorin-in: the City of Kyoto's official 2026 New Year's Eve bell list does not say whether ringing the bell or visiting costs anything. ↗
- notice.topic.q_all_night:shorin-in
- Shorin-in: the City of Kyoto's official 2026 New Year's Eve bell list gives only the 23:45 start of the bell and does not say how late the temple stays open that night. ↗
- notice.topic.q_access:shorin-in
- Shorin-in: the City of Kyoto's official 2026 New Year's Eve bell list says nothing about transport to the temple on New Year's Eve. ↗
- notice.topic.q_rules:shorin-in
- There is no limit on visitor numbers for Shorin-in's bell. ↗
- notice.topic.bell:shorin-in
- Shorin-in: all six pages listed in the official site's sitemap were read (top page, cultural-property exhibition, Shorin-in lectures, main-hall restoration, temple newsletter and access); none of the four categories — the bell itself (age, size, weight, history), how it is rung, how many strikes and when, or anything unique to this temple — mentions a bell or a New Year's Eve bell at all. ↗
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