Kōenji Temple (高圓寺)

Koenji Temple (高圓寺), officially Shukuhozan Koenji (宿鳳山高圓寺), is a Soto Zen Buddhist temple located southeast of Koenji Station in the Koenjiminami area of Suginami-ku, Tokyo. It was founded in 1555 by Kenshitsu Sosei (建室宗正), the third head priest of Nakano Seiganji Temple.

The temple became widely known during the tenure of its fifth head priest, Kogaku Ekido (耕岳益道), who gained the favor of Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604–1651), the third shogun of the Edo shogunate. It is said that Iemitsu renamed the area, which was Ozawa Village, to Koenji Village after the temple. Since then, the name "Koenji" has been used for the area and the station.

The temple has experienced several fires over the years, from the Kanpo era (1741-1744) until 1945. The current building was reconstructed in 1954.

To the west of the temple’s main hall stands a stone torii (shrine gate) engraved with a rising dragon and a descending dragon. It is one of the three twin dragon torii (双龍鳥居) in Tokyo.