Youkoin Temple

ADDRESS: 104 shimizunagare sakuraba, hirosaki-city, Aomori-prefecture

It is said that Kizan-an was built around 1600 in Meya’s Sakuraba Village (present-day Sakuraba District, Hirosaki City). When the Tsugaru 33 Kannon Pilgrimage began, the temples were concentrated in the castle town, and Yōko-in Temple was also popular as the fifth temple, but it was retired due to the reorganization of the ranking. However, the Senju Kannon Bodhisattva statue that was in Kiyomizu Kannon-do (2nd and 2nd Fudasho) is still carefully preserved in accordance with the Meiji Edict to Separate Shinto and Buddhism and the Edict to Abolish Buddhism.