Taigaku-in temple, Hadano (太岳院)

The temple was founded in 1541 on a former chapel of Yakushi: a village notable brought in the third abbot of another temple to open it. It keeps a wooden statue of the eleven-headed Kannon, 142.5 cm tall and carved from a single block, attributed to the late Heian period; Hadano city designated it one of its important cultural properties in 1971.

In 2007 the main hall was rebuilt to a design by Tadao Ando. The neighbouring spring pond, which local people call the Taigaku-in pond, was turned into a park in 2006 to mark the city's fiftieth anniversary; Ando drew up the concept for this park, which brings together cherry trees and spring water.

The temple belongs to the Sōtō school of Buddhism. It is one of the stops on the southern Hadano circuit of the seven lucky gods, cranes and tortoises, where two stamps can be collected, and a spot for cherry blossoms.

The temple is about a five-minute walk from the south exit of Hadano station, on the Odakyū line.