Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage
The oldest pilgrimage,
on a quiet island.
Mountains, forests, temples.
The Shikoku 88.
Stay,
rather than pass through.
The Shikoku pilgrimage is not only a path to walk.
A night at a temple, in conversation with a monk. A stranger in a town you have never been to. A quiet mountain that lies beyond any single faith.
Each is the pilgrimage. Each carries the shape of Japanese faith.
First, stay — one night, in one place.
From there, the journey begins.
Why stay at a temple.
Sitting beside a monk in the predawn rite.
Waking in mountain air.
Time, here, moves differently.
This is not tourism.
It is placing your body inside a rhythm 1,200 years old.
About Temple Stay
What has been here 1,200 years —
delivered as it is.
Temple Stay revives the shukubo of Shikoku and opens them to the world.
We begin in 2026 at Anrakuji — the 6th temple — in Kamiita, Tokushima.
We create nothing new.
We carry forward what is already here.