Station on the JR West Kishin Line. About 450 meters to the west is the site of Mimasaka Kokubun-niji nunnery. As with the Mimasaka Kokubun-ji, it was built in the middle of the 8th century and is believed to have been abandoned at the end of the Heian period or the early Kamakura period. It is not covered by the National Historic Site designation. Gallery See also List of Historic Sites of Japan (Okayama) provincial temple References External links e-tsuyama official site Okayama Prefecture home page Buddhist temples in Okayama Prefecture Historic Sites of Japan Tsuyama Mimasaka Province Important Cultural Properties of Japan 8th-century establishments in Japan Nara period 8th-century Buddhist temples Tendai temples Religious organizations established in the 8th century Buddhist archaeological sites in Japan