If you're on your way to the Akino Fuku Art Museum, it's worth making a quick detour to take a look at the nearby Eirinji temple. It's not big, but it's fun to look around because of all the different statues you'll find there; there's a serene statue of the Buddhist goddess of mercy, and a handful of cute little ones, as well as some lovely carvings in the eaves of the temple buildings.
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Tenryu Eirinji
A pleasant, intimate local temple near Hamamatsu

By Peter Sidell
Community writer

Some of the statues are just plain cute

You can see the graveyard from across the nearby river

What is it that this old lad is sitting on?

Red hats seem to be de rigeur here

These guys were all hanging out together

There's space for a small pond below a side shrine

Some beautifully detailed carving on one of the buildings

There's a big old tree in front of the temple hall

The Kannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy

I don't often see that window shape in a lantern

More red hats
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116 Futamatacho Futamata Tenryu Ward, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture 431-3314 (Directions)
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