Ryoko-in Temple once occupied a site three times that of the current site but became devastated as a result of the execution of the edict for the separation of Buddhism and Shinto in the Meiji period and reduced to the present scale.
かつての龍光院は現在の3倍ほどの敷地だったが、明治の神仏分離令の施行に際して破却の憂き目にあい，現在の姿となった。