Stairs of Moss

The moss is growing thickly.

Original Text

Sugimotoji Temple is the oldest temple in Kamakura. This moss stone steps are famous along with the eleven-faced Kannon. When you pass through the mountain gate, you can see the stone steps in front of you. Currently, probably because of the protection of moss, you cannot climb here to the main hall, so you will climb the stone steps on the side to the main hall. Camellia were planted on both sides of the stone steps, and the flowers fell on the stone steps.

It is a staircase leading to the main hall of Sugimotoji Temple.

Original Text

Sugimotoji Temple, the oldest temple in Kamakura, is a staircase that feels like a time slip. The stairs that return to the Nara period are a little interesting. If it really exists. The mossy staircase is a staircase that feels like that.

Mossy stone steps to the main hall

Original Text

It is a stone steps that leads straight from the end of the Niomon gate of Sugimotoji Temple, the oldest temple in Kamakura, to the main hall. It is called "moss staircase" because it is covered with moss as a whole. Looking up, the thatched-roof main hall is at the top of the deep green moss, and the thatched-roof Niomon is overlooked from the front of the main hall. Both are scenery that conveys the passage of long years. Currently, I don't know the details whether it is to prevent danger or protect cultural properties, but the road is closed by fences.

Stairs that make you feel history

Original Text

It is the stairs of Sugimotoji Temple. The mossy stairs are a wonderful landscape. It's purely for appreciation, and there's a new staircase on the side, so you'll pass through it. It's short and small, but it may be better for photography than the stairs of Moss Temple.

this is the moss staircase at sugimotoji temple.

Original Text

Do you know the "moss stairs"? Sugimotoji is a Tendai sect temple located in Nikaido, Kamakura, and is the first temple of Bando Sanjusan Kannon Sacred Ground. It is one of more than 40 temples that are said to have been opened by Gyogi during the Nara period. I would like to see the stone steps connecting the Niomon gate and the main hall (Kannon-do) filling the moss-covered stairs, but it's a pity that it doesn't make a visit at the time of year, but this stone steps are from Mt. Kamakura. It seems that it was cut out and made But the stone is soft and long time ...