Best Architecture around Kansai Spot List

Pray for good health and matchmaking at this shrine built for subduing an epidemic

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

The head shrine of all the Kasuga-jinja shrines all over Japan, it is located on Mt. Mikasa, which has been treated as a sacred area since ancient times. In 2018, the shrine commemorated its 1,250th anniversary.

A foreign residence of highly exotic, colonial design

Famous for its early blossoming cherry trees, which signify the coming of spring

The oldest shrine in Kyoto

Boasts an amazing stage modeled after a lion mask

Famous for its majestic, moss-covered garden

An old shrine known as “Ebessan” to Osaka’s merchants

An ancient temple supported by common people

The traditional god of learning

A sacred place connected to Hideyoshi

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.”

A temple with strings of ”monkey charms”

Blessed with knowledge by Monju

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

A temple located in the holy mountain of Kurama in Kyoto. Minamoto no Yoshitsune is said to have trained here, and visitors can feel the vibrant energy of nature and the universe.

One of the Monzeki temples of the Tendai sect that enshrines the National Treasure Amida Sanzon (Amida Triad) statue in eternal tranquility.

Dedicated to Toyo'uke-no-Omikami