Best Architecture around Kansai Spot List

The modern architecture leaves a bold impression

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

A Zen temple of the Rinzai Sect of Buddhism, world famous for its traditional rock garden.

Famous for a painted fusuma from Tohaku Hasegawa

A 300-m-high, one of Japan's highest buildings, Abeno Harukas is a landmark of Oasaka that features a department store, an art museum and a hotel.

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

A beautiful temple like the Pure Land itself that illustrates the prosperity of the Fujiwara regency during the late Heian Period.

Famous for its deity of scholarship

A temple famous for its Bone Buddhas

The scattered fallen leaves in autumn are beautiful

A guardian deity of water with miraculous virtue worshipped since ancient times. The shrine has been worshipped for better luck marriage by countless people through the ages, including nobles.

The main shrine hall is a national treasure with droves of people lining up for the New Year’s shrine visit at “Sumiyossan”

A sacred place connected to Hideyoshi

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

The graceful standing statue of Gigeiten is a must-see attraction

A temple built upon the request of Emperor Tenmu during the Hakuho Period. Reconstructed in recent years, the temple structures showcase beautiful, vibrant colors.

A grand temple complex established on Mount Koya some 900 years ago

A temple that has long protected Arima Onsen

A Zen temple of the Rinzai School built in the scenic area of Arashimaya in Kyoto. It was built by Takauji Ashikaga in memory of the recently deceased Emperor Go-Daigo.

Where the guardian buck and doe are enshrined