Stay or return · Mount Koya
Eko-in: a night in a monastery (shukubo), or cable car and train to Osaka
You finish with a night in a monastery, a shukubo, ¥15,000 to ¥25,000 per person with dinner and breakfast.
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Mount Koya · Free
Okunoin Cemetery
The largest cemetery in Japan: 200 thousand gravestones covered in moss under cedars hundreds of years old, along a path of two km. Free and always open. Start from Ichinohashi bridge and not from the parking lot, and that makes all the difference.
Price checked September 2026
Photo: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Mount Koya · Temple
Kongobuji Temple
The head temple of the Shingon sect: rooms with doors painted with gold leaf, a kitchen that fed 2,000 monks, and the largest rock garden in Japan (140 rocks). ¥1,000, including tea and a sweet in the guest room.
Price checked September 2026
Photo: Tomomarusan / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5)
Mount Koya · Free
Danjo Garan
The sacred precinct that Kobo Daishi planned in 816, the heart of the mountain: pagodas, halls and a pine tree on which, according to the legend, the ritual tool he threw from China landed. The grounds are free, and entry to the Golden Hall and to the Daito pagoda is ¥500 each.
Price checked September 2026
Photo: Hyppolyte de Saint-Rambert / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
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