Shukubo

Lodging in Hagurosan
A lodging house of Yakuoji, the 23rd sacred site of The 88 sacred sites of Shikoku.

A shukubo (宿坊) is a temple lodging in Japan that allows visitors to stay overnight within a Buddhist temple.[1] Originally, these facilities were designed to accommodate only monks and worshippers, but nowadays, in response to declining numbers of monk visitors, most facilities accept general tourists.[2] Some temples, such as Mount Kōya, have open-air baths with onsen.[3] Shukubo are now considered semi-secularized and in many towns are the only accommodations available.[3]

  1. ^ Earhart, H. Byron (1968). "The Celebration of "Haru-Yama" (Spring Mountain): An Example of Folk Religious Practices in Contemporary Japan". Asian Folklore Studies. 27 (1): 1–24. doi:10.2307/1177798. JSTOR 1177798.
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  3. ^ a b Reader, Ian (2020). "Turning to Tourism in a Time of Crisis?: Buddhist Temples and Pilgrimage Promotion in Secular(ized) Japan". In Bruntz, Courtney; Schedneck, Brooke (eds.). Buddhist Tourism in Asia. University of Hawai’i Press. pp. 161–80. doi:10.2307/j.ctvgs09c4.13. S2CID 216255881.