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Kyūshū

Fukusai-ji

Heading southeast along Nishizaka, a giant statue of Kannon marks Fukusai-ji. The original Zen temple, founded in 1628, was destroyed in 1945 by the A-Bomb and replaced with a tasteless, turtle-shaped building topped by the eighteen-metre-tall, aluminium-alloy goddess and a circle of supplicating infants. Inside, a 25-metre-long Foucault's pendulum represents a perpetual prayer for peace, oscillating over the remains of 16,500 Japanese war-dead buried underneath. Opening time: Daily 7am–4pmPrice: ¥200