Best Architecture around Kansai Spot List

This lushly green shrine faces Midosuji boulevard and is more than 1600 years old

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

Spend your time comfortably in the visitor's lodging at a first-class ryokan

Himeji’s famous mountain-top temple

Enshrines Japan's top Shinto deity

Famous for its strange festival, the Kurama Fire Festival

Don't miss seeing the resting place for Shinsengumi members, Mibu-zuka

Here resides the god who watches over Kyoto's kitchens

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

The mystical, large torii (gateway) that appears as if it’s floating on the lake’s surface is a must-see

A Tendai sect temple with the magnificent natural monument, Yoryu no Matsu

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

The head shrine of all Gion satellite shrines throughout Japan. Local residents call the shrine ”Gion-san.”

The dignified form of this early Edo period castle is still palpable

Several hundred structures are scattered across Mt. Hiei

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.

The head Kumano shrine where various Kumano deities are worshiped

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

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.

Where the successful Hideyoshi Toyotomi worshipped the three-faced Daikokuten