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Hiraizumi recognized as World Heritage site

HIRAIZUMI, Japan - People visit Konjikido Sheath Hall of Chusonji, a Buddhist temple in the Hiraizumi area, on June 25, 2011, which the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee authorized as a new World Heritage cultural site during a meeting in Paris the same day.

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Hiraizumi recognized as World Heritage site

HIRAIZUMI, Japan - People visit Konjikido Sheath Hall of Chusonji, a Buddhist temple in the Hiraizumi area, on June 25, 2011, which the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee authorized as a new World Heritage cultural site during a meeting in Paris the same day.

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Hiraizumi recognized as World Heritage site

HIRAIZUMI, Japan - People visit Konjikido Sheath Hall of Chusonji, a Buddhist temple in the Hiraizumi area, on June 25, 2011, which the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee authorized as a new World Heritage cultural site during a meeting in Paris the same day. (Kyodo)

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Hiraizumi recognized as World Heritage site

HIRAIZUMI, Japan - People visit Konjikido Sheath Hall of Chusonji, a Buddhist temple in the Hiraizumi area, on June 25, 2011, which the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee authorized as a new World Heritage cultural site during a meeting in Paris the same day. (Kyodo)

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Snow in Japan

Snow is piled up at the Konjikido golden pavilion of Chuson-ji temple in the Iwate Prefecture town of Hiraizumi, northeastern Japan, on the coldest day of the season on Dec. 15, 2020.

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Chusonji in northeastern Japan

File photo taken May 30, 2019, shows the Konjikido golden hall at World-Heritage listed Chusonji, a temple in Hiraizumi in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chusonji in northeastern Japan

File photo taken May 30, 2019, shows the Konjikido golden hall at World-Heritage listed Chusonji, a temple in Hiraizumi in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo