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[[Image:Enryakuji_Amidado_Detail2.JPG|thumb|Amida-dō Hall, Enryakuji]]

 

 

==Understand==

The temple of '''Enryakuji''', the first Japanese outpost of the esoteric Tendai sect of Buddhism, was founded atop Mt. Hiei by Saichō (Dengyō Daishi) in 788. The temple complex was razed by Oda Nobunaga in 1571 to quell the rising power of the Tendai's warrior monks, but it was rebuilt and remains the Tendai headquarters to this day.

 

==Get in==

Sakamoto and Mt. Hiei are best covered on foot. For going between the two, you can use the '''[http://www.sakamoto-cable.jp Sakamoto Cable Car]''', which costs ¥840/1570 one-way/round-trip and runs daily from 08:00 to 17:00 once every 30 minutes. At over 2 km, this is the longest cable car in Japan and takes about 11 minutes for the journey. This cable car line was built in 1927 and refurbished in 1993. The European style cars have large windows with wonderful views of Lake Biwa.

 

 

==See==

| content=The Garden Museum features spectacular views of Lake Biwa, garden flowers, art galleries, a cafe, large outdoor reproductions of famous works of French Impressionism, and a lily pond with arched bridge that aims to replicate the Japanese garden designed by Claude Monet in Giverny, France and featured in many of his late paintings. It also houses the grave of Saichō (Dengyō Daishi) the founder of Japan's Tendai Buddhism, and attracts many Japanese bush warblers ''(uguisu)''. The entrance fee is ¥1000 for adults, ¥500 for children.

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| name=Konpon Chudō | alt=根本中堂 | url= | email=

| content=The central hall of the temple. It contains the '''Inextinguishable Dharma Light''' (不減の法灯), a fire that has been burning for 1200 years. There is always a monk assigned to tend the fire and chant sutras here.

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| name=Bruno Petzold Monument | alt= | url=http://wayback.archive.org/web/20080617205054/http://www.gunlake.bc.ca/petzold | email=

| content=There is a station near the top of the Sakamoto Cable run called Motateyama. Walking a few hundred meters from this stop will bring you to a monument which has been erected to the memory of Bruno Petzold, a German Tendai Bishop and scholar who lived in Japan until his death in 1949.

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| name=Kokuhoden Museum | alt=国宝殿 | url=http://www.hieizan.or.jp/keidai/kokuhoden.html | email=

 

* '''Hiyoshi Sansō''' (日吉山荘) within the Hiyoshi Taisha shrine is a traditional '''teahouse''' in an extremely scenic little river gorge, particularly popular in fall. Food prices are quite steep (¥800 for soba!), but you can also bring your food for a ¥300 charge per head.

 

==Sleep==