Best Architecture around Kansai Spot List

Famous for its tea room, ”Hasso-no-seki”

Where the emperors and nobles enjoyed themselves

Tadao Ando designed this temple's main hall

One of the last temples to prohibit entry to women

The head temple of the Myoshin-ji Temple school of the Rinzai sect. It is Japan's largest Zen temple, with 46 sub-temples.

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

Several hundred structures are scattered across Mt. Hiei

Quietly praying to the rakan statues on the hillsides

A shrine famous for its ”Wedded Rocks”

A temple famous for its Bone Buddhas

The shrine to the north of the main hall of Kiyomizu-dera Temple, whose spirit is worshipped as a deity of marriage. A pair of guardian stones in the grounds known as ”Koi uranai-no-Ishi” dates back to the Jomon period.

A unique, symmetrical building

Ono no Komachi concealed herself here amongst the plum blossoms

The source of worship to Nachi Falls

The nation’s head Koyasan Shingon-shu temple

Where the successful Hideyoshi Toyotomi worshipped the three-faced Daikokuten

The scattered fallen leaves in autumn are beautiful

The animal taxidermy will surprise you

A spiritual area surrounding Kobo Daishi’s mausoleum

For those who want to succeed like Hideyoshi did