Virtual Yokohama City 33 Kannon Pilgrimage #27 Tozen-ji Temple

     Tozen-ji Temple was founded by Priest Kengaku in 1187.  The Matsuno Family, the lord of the manor in Amanuma, Kuraki County, Musashi Province, presented the temple building.

     Ama means the heaven and numa means a pond, and Amanuma had a good spring water.  In 1870, William Copeland (1834–1902), a Norwegian-American brewer, established the Spring Valley Brewery here.  The brewery was one of Japan's first beer breweries, and it became the Kirin Brewery Company in 1907.

Address: 101 Ohiracho, Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0859Phone: 045-641-4973