Download coordinates as: The Chichibu 34 Kannon Sanctuary (秩父札所三十四観音霊場, Chichibu Fudasho Sanjūyon Kannon Reijō) is a group of Japanese Buddhist temples linked on a pilgrimage route.
Chichibu City in the province of Saitama is the centre of a virtually self-contained valley, a mountain-ringed basin about 80 km north-west of Tokyo.
Visitors in numbers have been making the journey here since the Muromachi Period (1336–1573), covering the 100 kilometres it takes to reach all the temples.
About two-thirds of the temples are located in urban areas; the rest are in more rural settings.
It is said that about half of the 34 temples do not have resident priests and are maintained by caretakers who live nearby.