Hokyoji Retreat Center

Meals are vegetarian. The cooks make every effort to make special plates for dietary restrictions. Feel free to visit with us ahead of time to make sure we can accomodate you.

Don’t follow directions from Google to Eitzen. You may use Google Maps or another mapping app to generate directions from your address to our mailbox, however you do not want to go to Eitzen, MN. This is where our post office is and it is 10 miles Northwest of Hokyoji. You want to go to New Albin, Iowa. When entering New Albin from the North or South on highway 26, mid-town you will come across the New Albin Community Center with its animated electric sign. Turn at that intersection onto Ross Avenue, away from town, and head northwest past the cemetery on your right. The road will become gravel about half a mile outside of New Albin. After another mile and a half, past the 2nd red barn and across from some white buildings on the right, look on your left for the Hokyoji sign and a smaller sign that says 2649. Turn left onto our gravel road and follow it for a mile back into a clearing where the Hokyoji campus is located. * Hokyoji is rural and you may not have a good cell signal. We suggest you look at the route ahead of time.