Best Architecture around Kansai Spot List

Autumn colors light up the moss garden in this temple's garden of enlightenment

Featuring a garden created by Motonobu Kano

Two different windows overlooking a garden

A shrine for a popular matchmaking deity and associated with the puppet play “Sonezaki Shinju”

An elegant temple with a Japanese rock garden and wonderful autumn foliage

The source of worship to Nachi Falls

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

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

Famous for its strange festival, the Kurama Fire Festival

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

Where the emperors and nobles enjoyed themselves

Kudo-no-kami, the god of the kitchen, is enshrined here

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

The roads are covered with colorful leaves in autumn

Make your wishes at Nariai-ji Temple

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.

Enshrines Japan's top Shinto deity

A thatched hut that stands in lush greenery

The shrine to the north of the main hall of Kiyomizu-dera Temple, whose spirit is worshipped as a deity of marriage. A pair of guardian stones in the grounds known as ”Koi uranai-no-Ishi” dates back to the Jomon period.

Himeji’s famous mountain-top temple