Where are the Jizo statues around Fushimi Inari?

Stops on the way

1. 01Neighbourhood Jizo statues界隈のお地蔵さん

   Small Jizo statues stand on street corners all over Kyoto, put there to watch over local children. Some sit in neat shrines; others have weathered until their faces are hard to make out.

2. Walk 10 min

   02Haraobi Jizo腹帯地蔵

   At Sesshu-in temple. Legend says the statue asked to be carried here from a valley. Once thought to be clay, it turned out to be painted wood, and repairs dated it to the end of the Heian period.

3. Walk 15 min

   03Nurikobe Jizoぬりこべ地蔵尊

   A stone figure about 1 m tall, known for curing toothache. Postcards with prayers arrive from all over Japan and pile up in the little hall.

4. Walk 15 min

   04Sai-no-kawara Jizo賽の河原の地蔵さん

   The last of the five hundred stone arhats that the Edo-period painter Itō Jakuchū had carved over more than ten years.

Where this route comes from

This is the “お地蔵さん巡りルート” model course of the Inari Hanei-kai, the local shop and business association. The order of stops and the walking times are theirs; the descriptions are our own.