Best Visiting around Kansai Spot List

It has good access and takes only about 2 hours from Osaka. Slopes are compact but you never get tired with the course designs.

See the brave figures of twelve protective deities

A famous spot for cherry blossoms which line a path along the Okawa River

A tea ceremony sanctuary that started as a gathering of artists

The head temple of the Shinshu Otani sect of Buddhism is located within walking distance from Kyoto Station. The local residents refer to it affectionately as ”Ohigashi-san.”

See “Thunder of the Dragon” during special viewings

Mausoleum architecture representative of the early Edo period

A famous winter event in Kyu-Kyoryuchi

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

Enjoy the refreshing experience of skiing at night on powder snow.

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.

Famous for its national treasure, a statue of Miroku Bosatsu

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

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

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

An inn within the temple complex

This famous shrine blossoms in full glory from season to season with its flowers

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

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