Best Visiting around Kansai Spot List

A three-tiered pagoda and world heritage site, 1200 years old

Japan's oldest convent was a gift from Prince Shotoku to his mother

A temple with a living, breathing aesthetic sense of the tea ceremony

A shrine to the beautiful Mount Miwa, worshiped since ancient times

Happy Hako-Chan and friends' are Hakodateyama Ski Resort's theme characters.

One of Japan's famous ancient temples, quietly nestled in Ikaruga

See the brave figures of twelve protective deities

Famous for ”The Scrolls of Frolicking Animals and Humans”

Be healed by the wabi-sabi of this Muromachi-period elegant garden that transcends space and time

Offer a prayer to Japan's largest Buddha statue in its oldest temple

Check out an Ageya (elegant-restaurant) of the red-light district from the Edo period

The only existing merchant house in Kobe Former Foreign Settlement

The oldest surviving building of Todaiji Temple. All the Buddhist statues stored here are national treasures

A magnificent shrine dedicated to Emperor Jinmu and his Empress

See “Thunder of the Dragon” during special viewings

Located just one meter away from the sea, this is a public open-air bath that Shirahama Onsen is famous for. According to the ancient history books, such as the Nihonshoki (Chronicles of Japan) and the Manyoshu (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves), Prince Arima visited this place about 1,350 years ago.