Higashi Honganji Temple Hakodate Branch located in Motomachi, Hakodate City, Hokkaido is a temple of the Otani denomination of Jyodoshinshu. The principal object of worship is the statue of Amida Nyorai. The temple originates in a small Amida hall built in Kokinai Village in 1641 by the priest Jogen. In the later era, the temple was relocated to Hakodate. In 1858, it changed its name to Honganji Temple Hakodate Gobo Jogenji by the order of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and then in 1876, it named itself Higashi Honganji Temple Hakodate Branch.

The original temple building was destroyed by the two fires, and the temple was moved to the present area in 1915, and it was rebuilt with ferroconcrete for fire prevention. It became the first ferroconcrete temple in Japan. Though looking like a wooden structure, the main hall has the concrete-made beams and pillars and its small roofs have reinforcing steel bars. The main gate, Nanmon Gate and wall fences are all made of ferroconcrete. The gently curving huge roof of the main hall is very beautiful.