【Koyasan】Okunoin Night Tour .Explore History,Legends,and Nature！

Join a certified, local guide for a sacred night walk through Okunoin Cemetery. Discover a mystical and fantastical world, completely different from the daytime, as you listen to deep stories of Kobo Daishi Kukai and Esoteric Buddhism.
On this tour, we will walk through the sacred Okunoin cemetery at night to pay our respects to the great master Kobo Daishi Kukai. After dinner, before you retire for the night… walking through Okunoin with a local Koyasan guide reveals a fantastical and mysterious world, completely different from what you see during the day.

【Our Philosophy】
The “Koyasan Okunoin Night Tour” was started in 2011 by our founder, who began guiding visitors alone with a single passion: “I want people to experience the true, deep charm and silence of the Okunoin at night, safely.” For over 14 years since, we have been running this tour almost every single night.

【What You’ll Experience】
The tour covers a wide range of topics, including the story of Kobo Daishi, an introduction to Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, explanations of the ancient tombstones, mysterious legends of Okunoin, life in a shukubo (temple lodging), and the history of Koyasan.

We will go and descover the Okunoin cemetery between early dinner and bed time. The lantern lit in the dark, the silence of the night, it feels like a completely different place at night.

90 minutes tour around the largest historical cemetery in Japan：Okunoin. You will learn about legends,buddhist history and "Kobodaishi Kukai" the founder of the Shingon Buddism.

Surrounded by majestic ancient trees... If you are lucky, you will see flying squirrel, bat, owl, firefly...You will feel the history, religion, nature in the silence of a mystic ancient place..