The sun shines through the trees, over the mountain top, and warms your body as the cool air rustles the leaves – life at its best!!! This time of the year the leaves change colors and the color beauty overwhelms you.

The Shuzenji Temple was built in 807 AD and the legend has it that the famous Saint Kobo and his disciple founded the temple while traveling around Japan. While Kobo Daishi (Saint Kobo) stayed only temporarily, his disciple Korin Taitoku stayed and built up a small Shingon temple called Fukuchizan Shuzen Bannnanzenji – the origin of present day Shuzenji temple.