Rakanji Temple Oita

  • Published on : 27/12/2012
  • by : Japan Experience

Rakanji Temple in Nakatsu, Oita. Read a guide to Rakanji Temple, a temple built into a mountain, incorporating numerous caves, and thousands of stone buddhas.

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