The Ushiku Daibutsu is a bronze statue of Amitabha Buddha in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, completed in 1993. Ōtani Kōshō designed it, and it was built to mark the birth of Shinran, founder of Jōdo Shinshū. Kawada Kōgyō built it with a curtain wall method.
The statue is 330 feet (100 meters) tall, or 390 feet (120 meters) with its base and lotus platform. It weighs 4,003 tonnes on a steel frame. The face measures 66 feet (20 meters), and the eye alone measures 8.4 feet (2.55 meters). It was the world's tallest statue from 1993 to 2008.
A four-story museum fills the interior, and an elevator rises to an observation floor at 279 feet (85 meters). About 3,000 small gold Buddha statues fill the third level. Windows on the top level overlook a flower garden.
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