Eiheiji Buddhist Temple & Tojinbo

Your journey first takes you to Fukui to visit Eiheiji Temple. The largest temple in Japan and head of the Soto sect of Zen Buddhism, Eiheiji Temple is known as the "temple of eternal peace" and is located in the wood-covered mountains not far from Fukui City along the rocky coast of west Japan. The temple was founded by the famous Zen priest Dogen Zenji in 1244 and has served as a training center for Zen Buddhism ever since. After your visit continue to Tojinbo. Part of the Echizen Kaga Coastline Quasi National Park, Tojinbo is a fifty- foot-high cliff of unusually shaped pentagonal and hexagonal rock columns that extends for about one kilometer. Created by a volcanic eruption 130 million years ago and further shaped by the repeated crashing of waves, Tojinbo is one of only three such rock formations in the world.