Best Architecture around Kansai Spot List

Renowned for its famous Somei spring water and bush clover flowers

A beautiful castle otherwise known as Shirasagi-jo Castle. It was Japan's first UNESCO World Heritage site.

Enjoy the burning red foliage in autumn and the cherry blossoms and rhododendrons in spring

A temple famous for its Bone Buddhas

Here resides the god who watches over Kyoto's kitchens

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.”

This ancient temple was erected by Empress Komyo

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

Where the guardian buck and doe are enshrined

Having many children themselves, rabbits symbolize safe child-rearing here

Boasts an amazing stage modeled after a lion mask

A castle that is deeply rooted in the history of the Tokugawa Clan and became an important historic site during the Meiji Restoration when power was returned to Japan's Imperial Family.

The Osawa-no-ike Pond is famous for its cherry blossoms and moon-viewing pavilion

This Buddhist school was established by the Chinese monk Jianzhen

Known for “the evening bell of Mii-dera”, one of the Eight Views of Omi

Famous for its connection to Honen and it’s beauty in autumn

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.

Tadao Ando designed this temple's main hall

A school that embodies the dreams of Buddhist teacher Kobo Daishi

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