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Modern SitesSite Name: Kongō-ji temple Alternative Name: 金剛寺 Kongo-jiCountry: Japan
NOTE: This site is 2.108 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Gojō (Nara prefecture) Nearest Village: NoharaNishi 野原西
Latitude: 34.345630N Longitude: 135.701870E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Modern Stone Circle / Monolith in Honshū
Kongō-ji’s dry landscape garden is extremely simple, only few stones and gravel. But the temple is decorated with flowers season by seaaon.
Open 8:30-17:00, admission 300 Japanese Yen, 350 Yen (peony season=mid Apr.-early May) (2024 price).
Official site in Japanese
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