The pagoda is about 50 meters tall, making it the second-tallest wooden pagoda in Japan after the one at Toji temple in Kyoto. It was originally built in 730 by order of Empress Komyo, and has ...

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The pagoda was built as a temporary indoor display in the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition’s Palace of Food Products. It was moved to the Japanese Tea Garden in 1916.

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