Best Visiting around Kansai Spot List

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

This green western-style home shines with pleasant sensibility

The head temple of the Rinzai sect, known as the highest-ranked Zen temple in Japan.

Learn about sake brewing

Famous for its deity of scholarship

Renowned for its famous Somei spring water and bush clover flowers

The traditional god of learning

Works related to the Harima area are on display here. The watchful figure of Himeji Castle is beautiful

Some of Japan's best, gently colored cherry blossoms

Tadao Ando designed this temple's main hall

A temple built upon the request of Emperor Tenmu during the Hakuho Period. Reconstructed in recent years, the temple structures showcase beautiful, vibrant colors.

Take a relaxed trip around Ine Bay by boat

The head temple of the Jodo sect, founded at the place where Honen Shonin passed away. The magnificent monastery was built under the wing of the Tokugawa family.

This sacred primeval forest is registered as a world heritage site

Located at the birthplace of sumo, this museum offers a chance to explore the history of the sport. It features a full-size sumo ring and a collection of about 12,000 sumo-related artifacts.

A picture of life in Japan perfectly blended into nature

A Zen temple of the Rinzai Sect of Buddhism, world famous for its traditional rock garden.

A city park famed as a sightseeing spot representing Nara. World Heritage sites such as Todai-ji Temple, Kofuku-ji Temple and Kasuga-taisha Shrine are close to each other.

A rare, underground art museum

Experience the sensibility of an artist