Hindu temples, gurdwaras and the Kobe Jain temple in Japan

Tokyo has the most Indian residents in Japan (20,003 on the register of 1 January 2026), but none of its places of worship is a purpose-built temple: a three-storey ISKCON house, a gurdwara in a basement, a Sai Baba centre in a ground-floor unit and a ground-floor mandir. Nishi-Kasai, the Indian neighbourhood, has no mandir that we could confirm; the nearest place of worship is ISKCON at Funabori, in the same ward.

• HinduISKCON

  ISKCON New Gaya Japan (ISKCON Tokyo)

  Address

  2-23-4 Funabori, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo 134-0091 · Directions

  When

  Mon–Sat 08:00–13:00 and 16:30–21:00; Sun 08:00–15:00 and 16:30–21:00. Arati at 05:30, 08:00, 12:30, 16:30, 19:00 and 20:50. Sunday programme: kirtan 11:00, Raj Bhoga arati 12:30, talk 13:00, free prasadam 14:00

  ISKCON’s Tokyo temple since July 2011, in a three-storey building the congregation owns, with Sri Sri Radha Govinda and Sri Sri Nitai-Gaurasundara on the altar; two minutes on foot from the south exit of Funabori station on the Toei Shinjuku Line. The site announces a phased renovation (altar, hall and deity kitchen first) with daily worship continuing, and lists Kartik (Damodar mas) from 26 October to 24 November 2026, but no Diwali programme yet.

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• Sikh

  Guru Nanak Darbar Tokyo

  Address

  3-5-4 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012 (Myogadani Heights, basement) · Directions

  When

  No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

  Tokyo’s gurdwara, run by volunteers in a basement in the Myogadani district since 2001; the community met in Indian restaurants from 1998 before that. The deewan is held about once a month, usually on a Sunday, with a free meal for everyone; in 2016 about 70 people came on festival days and 35 to 50 on ordinary ones. The street address is from the World Gurudwaras directory and the gurdwara’s own website did not load on 31 October 2026, so ask NPO Guru Nanak Darbar Tokyo, which the Embassy of India lists, for the next date.

• HinduShirdi Sai

  Shirdi Sai Baba Tokyo Center

  Address

  San-famille Nishiwaseda 1F, 3-17-23 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0051 · Directions

  When

  First and third Saturday of every month, 12:00–14:00

  A Sai Baba centre in a ground-floor unit with no sign outside: the site asks visitors to come only in opening hours, take their shoes off, keep quiet and not to ask neighbours or the building’s staff for directions. Nobody there speaks English, so write ahead; Takadanobaba station is about ten minutes on foot and Nishiwaseda (Fukutoshin Line) about eight.

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• HinduBAPS

  BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Tokyo

  Address

  Tokyo — the venue moves; see below

  When

  No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

  Listed in BAPS’s Asia-Pacific network, with the ground floor of a Tokyo building given over to the mandir; BAPS reported more than 120 devotees from Tokyo, Kobe, Kofu, Kyoto, Osaka and Yokohama at the Vedic consecration rituals, the Tokyo ceremony on 31 March 2018. BAPS publishes no street address or sabha times for it on the pages we could read, so ask BAPS through its Asia-Pacific page before going; its weekly satsang sabha is on Sundays at BAPS centres worldwide.

Yokohama had one of Japan’s earliest Indian trading communities, many of whom moved to Kobe after the 1923 earthquake, and Kanagawa now has 7,946 Indian residents (end-2025). We could not confirm a mandir or gurdwara in Yokohama itself; its Marathi association, the Yokohama Mandal, held a three-day Ganeshotsav with a procession in 2024, in a hall rather than a temple.

• HinduRamakrishna Vedanta

  Vedanta Society of Japan (Nippon Vedanta Kyokai)

  Address

  Kugi 4-18-1, Zushi, Kanagawa 249-0001 · Directions

  When

  No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

  The Zushi centre of a branch of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, on the Embassy of India’s list: study classes (in Japanese) on the Bhagavad Gita and the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, a monthly retreat, and the Kali Puja on Sunday 8 November 2026 from 18:30 to 21:00 in its Annexe — reservations are closed because all seats are taken, but it is livestreamed from 18:30. The address is from the register of religious corporations, so confirm with the Society before a first visit; there is no car park.

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Kobe was the centre of Japan’s Indian community until about 1990 — the India Club dates from 1904 — and it has the Jain temple and the older of Japan’s two gurdwaras. Hyogo prefecture has 1,794 Indian residents, fewer than Osaka, but Kobe has more places of worship. We could not confirm a Hindu mandir in Kobe.

• Sikh

  Guru Nanak Darbar Sahib (Kobe gurdwara)

  Address

  2-1-15 Nozaki-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe 651-0054 · Directions

  When

  No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

  Japan’s older gurdwara, “established in 1966” on its own Facebook page, in a house on a residential street east of Sannomiya. Kobe Shimbun described a Sunday service around midday in 2017 — about an hour of kirtan and prayer in Punjabi, then a shared meal of bean curry, chapati and yoghurt downstairs and karah prashad; no hours are published, so ask through the page. The house number is from the World Gurudwaras directory.

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• JainShwetambar

  Bhagwan Mahavir Swami Jain Temple (Kobe Jain Temple)

  Address

  3-7-5 Kitano-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0002 · Directions

  When

  No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

  Opened on 1 June 1985 in the Kitano district and run by the Jain Sangh of Kobe, a trust of local Indian business families; the Mahavir murti was flown in from Mumbai in 1984. Shoes come off at the entrance, visitors can sit and meditate upstairs, and free booklets in English and Japanese are by the door; no opening hours are published, so ask the Sangh before you go.

Osaka has 2,158 Indian residents (end-2025) and Kyoto fewer, but neither has a mandir, gurdwara or Jain temple that we could confirm; the nearest in Kansai are in Kobe. The Consulate General of India in Osaka-Kobe serves the region.

• HinduISKCON

  ISKCON Osaka

  Address

  1-1-17 Katamachi, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka 534-0025 · Directions

  When

  Picnic kirtan on the third Sunday of each month, 13:00–16:00, at Senri Minami Park in Suita (next: Sunday 15 November 2026)

  ISKCON Japan lists the centre at the Katamachi address, but the centre’s own site (in Japanese) gives no street address or temple hours, only the monthly kirtan behind the park’s open-air stage, festivals such as Janmashtami in the same park and a LINE contact — message before going. In rain the kirtan moves under a tent on the park’s round plaza.

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