Best Architecture around Kansai Spot List

A shrine affiliated with boars and protection for the lower body

Quietly praying to the rakan statues on the hillsides

One of Kyoto's most renowned temples, located on the side of Mt. Otowa in the Higishiyama Range. It has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Enshrines Japan's top Shinto deity

A temple famous for its Bone Buddhas

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

View the ocean from 47 meters above sea level

A beautiful castle otherwise known as Shirasagi-jo Castle. It was Japan's first UNESCO World Heritage site.

A shrine to visit for breaking bad habits or starting good ones

Two different windows overlooking a garden

The source of worship to Nachi Falls

A temple with strings of ”monkey charms”

Featuring a garden created by Motonobu Kano

The oldest shrine in Kyoto

Surrounded by the old-growth forest of Tadasu-no-Mori, the shrine has records that date back before Christ. It is also renowned as a spiritual place believed to bring good luck in romance.

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.

Boasts an amazing stage modeled after a lion mask

Blessed with knowledge by Monju

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.

This ancient temple contains the history of the Southern Dynasty