Chōzenji Temple (Ishiyama Battle Memorial Museum)

Chōzen-ji Temple, founded during the Kenkyū era (1190–1199), was originally located in Nishino Village, Kamo District (now Sōtoku, Nishino-chō, Takehara City) and was a Tendai sect temple known as “Ōuchiyama Chōzen-an.”
In Eishō 11 (1514), it converted to Jōdo Shinshū under the monk Genchibō Zen’e and changed its name to Chōzen-ji.
After that, it was damaged twice—once in Eiroku 5 (1562) and again in Keichō 19 (1614).
There is also a tradition that in Keichō 19, when Fukushima Masanori’s forces passed through Kawarasaka, they burned the temple because it was too dark.
It was moved to Irino Village, Toyota District in Genna 1 (1615), but was destroyed by fire again in Genji 1 (1864).
In Meiji 7 (1874), it was relocated to its current site by the 18th head priest, Oshō Daijun, and remains here today.

car

9 minutes by car from JR Kure Line “Takehara Station”
8 minutes by car from Michi-no-Eki Takehara
23 minutes by car from JR Higashi-Hiroshima Station
11 minutes by car from Kouchi IC on the Sanyo Expressway
16 minutes by car from Hiroshima Airport

bus

10 minutes by local bus from JR Kure Line “Takehara Station,” then a 3-minute walk from the “Daifukuchi” bus stop