64 reactions · 13 shares | Kenchō-ji is the oldest Zen training monastery in Japan and holds the highest rank in the Kamakura Five-Mountain system (五山). It was built in the Kamakura period (1192-1337), the construction was finished in 1273. | Real Japanese Gardens | Facebook

Would you like to see my sleeping room in a traditional Buddhist monastery? 🏯 We stayed at Kongo Sammai-in, right in the sacred town of Koyasan, a mountain village that feels like another world. Getting there was an adventure itself: multiple trains, then a cable car climb into the clouds! This monastery is attached to a temple that has stood for over 800 years, where monks have chanted their morning ceremony for more than 600 years without missing a single day. The only way to join them is to

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