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Jisho-ji Temple (Ginkaku-ji Temple)

4.5

4638 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Ginkakujichou 2

A mountain retreat modeled after the Kinkaku-ji Temple (Gold Pavillion Temple) built by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, grandfather of the eighth Muromachi shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, in 1482. After Yoshimasa’s death, the villa was turned into a Rinzai Shokoku-ji school Zen Buddhist temple and, based on Yoshimasa’s posthumous name, the temple was named the Jishoji Temple. The Kannon Hall, commonly known as the Ginkaku (Silver Pavillion), is simple and elegant in its design; the Togu-do hall is the oldest extant example of ancient Japanese shoin-zukuri architecture and is designated a National Treasure.

We stopped here despite the pouring rain. There is an entrance fee. The grounds are quite beautiful and you even can walk up a path of the side of the adjacent hill and find a wonderful overview of...
Eikando Zenrin-ji

4.5

1727 Reviews

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The head temple of Nishiyama Zenrinji Pure Land Sect of Buddhism, located in Eikando Town, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City. The temple was erected by Shinsho, a disciple of the famed priest Kukai, in 853 to serve as a Pure Land Sect dojo. Thereafter, a man named Eikan joined the priesthood and began engaging in philanthropic works while spreading Pure Land Buddhism and encouraging people to pray to Amitabha. Accordingly, the name “Eikando” is derived from his name. The temple is famous for its standing figure of Amitabha, which is looking back over its shoulder. An exhibit of the temple’s treasure house is held in November. The temple has also been famous for its autumn foliage since ancient times.

One of famous autumn leaves temple. Here is special to maintain trees during year for autumn season. It’s said water is impotent for red leaves if few rain they put water to a lot of trees. There are...
Honen-in Temple

4.5

284 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Shishigatanigoshonodanchou 30

This is a mountain temple of the Jodo Buddhist sect in Higashiyama, with a renovated thatched hut that was once used for six o’clock prayer by Honen priests and their followers. The road leading to the temple has white sand platforms on each side representing water, and by passing between them one’s mind and body can be purified. The garden with pond is particularly wonderful in the autumn season when changing leaves can be seen. The temple is full of special sights including Fusuma-e (painting on a sliding screen) by Kano Mitsunobu, and the grave of Tanizaki Junichiro only open during special time-limited events.

This temple is a little off the beaten path, and much less visited than other temples in Kyoto. I appreciated the peace and tranquility, and found the moss-covered thatched roof of the front gate to...
Place of Scenic Beauty: Murin-an

4.5

152 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

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This is a villa built over a period of two years from 1894 by the Meiji and Taisho period politician Aritomo Yamagata. It is comprised of an extensive garden and three buildings, a main building, a Western-style house, and a tea house, and the garden in particular was created by Jihei Ogawa VII under Yamagata’s instructions and is well-known as an open space full of abundant nature. It was designated as a National Place of Scenic Beauty in 1951. The garden unfolds against the backdrop of the Higashiyama Mountains, and in autumn visitors can enjoy the appearance of the trees filled with red and yellow colors.

I have been to Japan many times and have now learnt that if a temple or garden has a well designed English website, chances are it will be packed with tourists. I came across Murinan in an English...
Hyakumanben Chionji Temple (Hyakumanben-san)

4.0

97 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

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Located in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, this is one of the head temples of Pure Land Buddhism. After a great earthquake in 1331 resulted in an outbreak of disease, the priest Zenna Kuen made one million prayers for the disease to be alleviated, after which Emperor Go-Daigo granted the temple the title of “Hyakumanben” (“one million prayers”). The temple is the site of many structures designated Important Cultural Properties, including the so-keyaki-zukuri style Image Hall, Amitabha Hall, and Gautama Buddha Hall. A market dedicated to handmade items is also held on the temple grounds every month on the 15th, with some 300 stalls selling handmade goods.

Chionji is a relatively big temple, which stands at the corner of Higashioji and Imadegawa Avenue. It is very close to Kyoto University and nice to take a walk around. Open-air market of this temple...
Nanzen-ji Zen Temple

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Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Nanzenjifukuchichou

The head temple of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism, located in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City. The temple was founded by the priest Mukan Fumon as the Zenrin-ji-dono, the imperial villa of Emperor Kameyama in 1291. The temple’s standing is high; it is considered above the five most important Rinzai temples in both Kyoto and Kamakura. Its triple gate is considered one of the three most impressive temple gates in Kyoto and is also famous as the setting of a scene in the kabuki play Sanmon gosan no kiri, in which the character of Ichikawa Goemon utters the well-known line, “How beautiful, how beautiful!” The temple houses numerous Important Cultural Properties, such as famed painter Kano Tan’yu’s screen paining The Tiger of Mizunomi. The grounds contain an abbot’s residence which is a National Treasure and was moved here from the former imperial palace of Fushimi Castle. The temple’s garden is a dry landscape garden representative of the early Edo period style.
Nanzen-ji Zen Temple Tenjuan

4.5

119 Reviews

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Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Nanzenjifukuchichou

A sub temple of the Nanzen-ji Zen Temple located in Sakyo Ward in Kyoto City. The temple was built by imperial charter from Emperor Kogon in 1339 as the private hermitage of Mukan Fumon, the priest who founded the Nanzen-ji Zen Temple. Visitors can enjoy two Japanese gardens—a strolling garden built around a central pond thick with trees, and a landscape garden composed of white sand and rhomboidal stones. The fall foliage is gorgeous and the view from the main temple nave is truly superb. The abbot’s chamber is decorated with a screen painting by the famed Hasegawa Tohaku which is a registered Important Cultural Property; unfortunately, however, it is not displayed to the general public.

Right next to Nanzen-ji San-mon gate the Tenju-an (a subtemple of Nanzen-ji) has a beautiful garden with white gravel field viewed from temple platform and also a stroll garden. The view from temple...
Yoshida-jinja Shrine

4.0

101 Reviews

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Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Yoshidakaguraokachou 30

A Shinto shrine located on Mt. Yoshida in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City. The shrine was founded to protect the capital of Heian-kyo by Fujiwara no Yamakage in 859. The gods enshrined in its first and second halls ward against evil and provide good fortune. The god in the third hall is dedicated to scholarship, while the god of the fourth hall grants special favor to women. The shrine is famous for its Setsubun Festival, a tradition which dates back to the Muromachi period (1333–1568) and which is held for three days centering around Setsubun (the last day of winter in the traditional calendar). Visited by hundreds of thousands each year, the grounds bustle with shrinegoers seeking prayer slips to ward off evil and gardenia colored amulets sold at its many stands.

This temple is is a must to visit while in Kyoto. For good photos I recommend to be at this place in an early morning before it gets too crowded.
Konchi-in

4.5

110 Reviews

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Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Nanzenjifukuchichou

A sub temple of the Nanzen-ji Zen Temple located in Sakyo Ward in Kyoto City. The temple is said to have been erected in Kitayama by Ashikaga Yoshimochi, the fourth Muromachi shogun, and moved to its current location in 1605. Toshogu Shrine, erected according to the will of the great shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, serves as the temple’s richly decorated main hall. The front hall is famous for paintings such as the Crying Dragon ceiling painting by Kano Tan’yu and the Thirty-Six Great Poets by Tosa Mitsuoki. An Important Cultural Property, the Toshogu Shrine also enshrines a lock of Ieyasu’s hair and his personal image of the Buddha. The main temple nave is famous for its gold wall paintings created in the Kano school style. The grounds offer numerous points of note, such as a tea room deemed on the of three best in Kyoto, as well as the Crane and Tortoise Garden, a designated Place of Scenic Beauty.

Konchi-in is a temple (a subtemple of Nanzen-ji) with a stroll garden and the “Crane and Turtle Garden”, a karesansui garden viewed from temple balcony. Toshugu shrine on temple grounds has a history...
Kyoto Daigaku

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Kyoto Kyoto-shi Sakyo-ku Yoshidahonmachi
Taiho-jinja Shrine

4.0

73 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

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"This shrine has an extremely rare ""koma nezumi,"" named for the myth found in the Kojiki in which a mouse saved Okuninushi when caught in a scheme and surrounded by wildfire. It receives veneration as a place to improve school marks, relationships, and health without disease."

If you blink you can miss this shrine, it is not well directed to so youll need to locate it on a more detailed map of the area.
Lake Biwa Canal Museum

4.0

55 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

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The Lake Biwa Canal Museum in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward was built to commemorate the centennial of the completion of the Lake Biwa Canal. Visitors can see a variety of documents and exhibits about the canal, which has been designated part of the Heritage of Industrial Modernization. Tourists enjoy following designated walking courses in the area.

The museum was near to Nanzenji Temple. It was opened in 1989 to display materials and information on the importance of canal in respect of the culture and civilization of the place. Lake Biwa...
Kumano Nyakuoji-jinja Shrine

4.0

43 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

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Kumano Nyakuoji-jinja Shrine is counted as one of Kyoto’s three Kumano shrines. The shrine’s sacred trees, 400 year old nagi conifers, were used as trees in purification ceremonies for people visiting Ise and Kumano shrines. There is a cherry blossom festival on the first Sunday of every April, crowded with people who come to appreciate the Taisho koto (Japanese harp with two to five strings) or shigin (Chinese poem recital) performances. It is also a famous spot for viewing the changing leaves in autumn.

This shrine has an unusual attraction, it must be the lanterns that adorn the exterior. If there visit it, but dont need to go out of your way.
The Kyoto University Museum

4.0

27 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Yoshidahonmachi Kyoto University General Museum

This museum, located in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, archives and displays erstwhile cultural items of each of the research laboratories and departments of the Kyoto University. Divided into three exhibitions areas, the permanent exhibits house fossils and plants in the natural history area, literature and maps in the cultural history area, and models of mechanical devices in the technological history area. Periodical exhibits and children's exhibits as well as other events are regularly held.

京都大学総合博物館は、京都大学に隣接した。百万遍の近くにあります。大人の入場料は400円です。色々な標本が展示されていて楽しく拝見しました。私の場合は、入館するのが遅かったので、約1時間で見終わりました。閉館時間が、15時30分なので、もう少し遅い方が良かったです。
Keage Incline

Travel / Tourism

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An inclined railroad 582 meters long that served as part of the Lake Biwa Canal in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City. It is the longest such incline in the world. The railroad was used from 1891 to 1948 to move boats over a steep incline on the Lake Biwa Canal that rose 36 meters in total. Today, visitors can walk along the tracks and, in spring, enjoy the Somei-yoshino and mountain cherry blossoms planted alongside.
Nanzen-ji Temple

Travel / Tourism

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Nanzenjifukuchichou

Nanzen-ji Temple is a famous spot even in Kyoto for viewing the changing leaves of autumn. “Nanzenin” is the site of the villa of Emperor Kameyama (1249–1305) and the original site of Nanzenji Temple. The garden is a stereotypical example of the kind of path around a pond garden of the late Kamakura period, the highlight being the reflection of colored Japanese maple leaves in the pond’s surface. It is also designated as one of Kyoto’s three historic sites and landmark gardens of scenic beauty. The area around Nanzenji Temple is said to be the birthplace of boiled tofu, so it is certainly worth trying some if visiting.
Izumiya Hiroshi Furudate

4.5

34 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Sakyo-ku Shishigatanishimomiyanomaecho 24

Stunning paintings of Japanese Birds on parchment and cloth were impressive in their precision and detail. One large room, but not with all 3,000 Items on display, so very manageable. Then...
Kurodani, Konkai-Komyoji Temple

3.5

3 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

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A Jyodo Buddhist temple located in the Kurodani-cho area of Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City. The temple is popularly known as Kurodani-san. It is also one of the seven head temples of the Jyodo sect and one of the four located in Kyoto. The temple is comprised of 18 sub temple buildings in addition to primary buildings such as the Amitabha Hall, Miei-do Hall, and three-story pagoda. The pagoda, a designated Important Cultural Property, was built in 1634 to memorialize Tokugawa Hidetada. The grounds also host a memorial pillar of the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu’s mother, Ogoh erected by Iemitsu’s wet nurse Lady Kasuga. Highlights include temple treasures such as the Image of Amitabha Crossing the Mountains and Image of Hell and the Pure Land, Important Cultural Properties, as well as a wooden figure of the thousand armed Kannon.

御影堂を正面に見ると右手方向に立つお堂でした。広い境内に立つだけあって、お堂とは云いながら立派な建築物と云えそうでした。猶、境内の主だった建物にはそれぞれ説明板が立ち、し由来が分かるようになっていました。
Nomura Art Museum

4.0

21 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

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An art museum located near the north gate of the Nanzen-ji Zen Temple. The museum was founded in 1984 based largely around the collection of Tokushichi Nomura, founder of Nomura Securities. The museum’s collection consists of tea ceremony implements, paintings, calligraphy works, Noh masks, and Noh costumes gathered by Nomura, who, while being active as an industrialist, also greatly enjoyed the tea ceremony and Noh theater. The museum displays selections from its collection of some 1,700 items, including seven Important Cultural Properties such as calligraphic works by Sesson Shukei and Syuho Myocho.

This is a great small museum, extremely well located in a beautiful neighborhood, near Nanzenji and the other great temples of Higashiyama. In our November visit they had a ground floor exhibit of...
Nanzenji Junsei

4.0

292 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Nanzenji Front of the gate

The Nanzen-ji Zen Temple is the head temple of Rinzai Buddhism. This restaurant located in front of the temple serves traditional Kyoto kaiseki course cuisine such as its famed boiled tofu. Diners can enjoy seasonal kaiseki dishes and boiled tofu while enjoying the view of the restaurant’s garden. After your meal, why not take a stroll in the garden of the Junsei Shoin, a registered Tangible Cultural Property originally built as a space for the study of medicine in the Edo period.

I really dont like writing this, but this restaurant was such a disappointment. Just not the care and quality you come to expect in Japan. The tofu was nice, but Bream was very overcooked and...

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