The Best Sight in Noto-hanto (Noto Peninsula), The Japan Alps and the North Chubu Coast

This seldom-visited but well-tended temple complex sits a few miles north of the town of Hakui, in the southwest of the peninsula. The temple, founded in 1294 and belonging to the Nichiren sect of Buddhism, has a five-story pagoda dating from the 1600s. A large, colorful Buddha statue sits inside a squat wooden building. The influence of mainland Asia is visible in the gargantuan, wooden guardian deities.