What is "nofuku-ji"

is a Buddhist temple that, from the legend, was founded in 805 by the monk Saichō, in Kita Sakasegawa, Hyōgo-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Saichō (of the Tendai sect) placed a statue of Yakushi Nyorai of his own making in the temple hall and named the temple .

This temple served as a branch temple of Kyoto's Shōren-in from the early Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period.

The (a Buddhist pilgrimage route in Japan) includes this temple as one of the stops.