Best Architecture around Kansai Spot List

A world-class suspension bridge recognized by Guinness

Tadao Ando designed this temple's main hall

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

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

Fallen leaves on the road to the temple invite you to this high-status monzeki temple

The abbot’s chambers are surrounded by four gardens

Here resides the god who watches over Kyoto's kitchens

Twin Dragons created during the Heisei period watch over Kyoto’s oldest Zen temple

The mountain villa of Minamoto no Toru, the model for Hikaru Genji

A sacred place connected to Hideyoshi

Known by locals as “Kurodani-san”

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

The head temple of the Shingon Sect's Omuro School. Holding a long association with the Imperial Household, the temple is also well known for its late-blooming cherry trees called Omuro-zakura.

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

Check out the ”Sento Kuyo” ceremony on summer nights

Many people visit to receive divine blessing from the “kachi daruma”, said to bring good luck

The first of 33 temples on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, Seiganto-ji is an ever-popular destination for worshipers

The magnificent appearance of this building is the symbol of Nakanoshima

The head temple of the Jodo sect, founded at the place where Honen Shonin passed away. The magnificent monastery was built under the wing of the Tokugawa family.