Best Architecture around Kansai Spot List

The nation’s head Koyasan Shingon-shu temple

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

The school Yae Niijima’s husband Joseph dreamed of opening

Famous for a painted fusuma from Tohaku Hasegawa

Indulge in tea while gazing at the garden

An old shrine that has continued to protect the northeast entry to Kyoto

A massive triple gate welcomes you to the head temple for the Obaku sect of Zen Buddhism

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.

Famous for its strange festival, the Kurama Fire Festival

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

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

A unique, symmetrical building

Famous for its cherry blossoms and being one of Kyoto’s three Kumano Shrines

The source of worship to Nachi Falls

A mortuary temple for the imperial household

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.

The oldest shrine in Kyoto

Tadao Ando designed this temple's main hall

A temple that has existed since the Warring States period and is connected to Nobunaga

The homeland of a goddess at Ise Grand Shrine, located in the old Tango Province