Best Visiting around Kansai Spot List

The main training center for Shingon Esoteric Buddhism with its iconic five-story pagoda, the key landmark of Kyoto's scenery. The temple is known as ”Daishi's temple.”

Spend your time comfortably in the visitor's lodging at a first-class ryokan

A relaxing spot above the pond

A Tendai sect temple with the magnificent natural monument, Yoryu no Matsu

The head temple of the Rinzai sect's Tofuku-ji School, which has Japan's largest monastery and oldest San-mon gate. It is known as one of Kyoto's best places to view autumn leaves.

Founded in 1895 for the 1,100th anniversary of the relocation of the capital city to the Heian-kyo, the shrine reproduces the Imperial Palace of the Heian-kyo. It enshrines Emperor Kanmu and Emperor Komei.

The second-oldest national museum in Japan, located in Nara Park. It boasts the nation's greatest collection of Buddhist art.

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

Teaware masterpieces collected by a businessman

Featuring a wooden statue of a historical Shogun from the Ashikaga period

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.

An old shrine known as “Ebessan” to Osaka’s merchants

It’s not just about the animals! Enjoy this sprawling park and its many notable points

A shrine for a popular matchmaking deity and associated with the puppet play “Sonezaki Shinju”

An estate where Kishu samurai resided

Where the emperors and nobles enjoyed themselves

Become intimate with literature in this famous building

The symbol of Osaka and loved by people as ”Mr. Taiko's castle,” the Main Tower has been designated as a registered tangible cultural property of Japan.

A garden enjoyed by many writers and artists