Best Architecture around Kansai Spot List

The modern architecture leaves a bold impression

Inherit Hikaru Genji's luck in love

A temple founded in Higashiyama by Hideyoshi Toyotomi's wife, Nene, to mourn his passing and pray for his soul. The nighttime illuminations in spring, summer and fall are beautiful to see.

Occasionally open seasonally for cherry blossom, azalea, and fall leaves viewing

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.

Famous for its strange festival, the Kurama Fire Festival

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.

The object of worship here is Amida Nyorai and the statue of Prince Shotoku in the main hall is an important cultural property

A massive triple gate welcomes you to the head temple for the Obaku sect of Zen Buddhism

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

A spiritual area surrounding Kobo Daishi’s mausoleum

A shrine famous for its ”Wedded Rocks”

Enshrines Japan's top Shinto deity

Known for its relation to the Fujiwara clan, this shrine boasts spectacular views of autumn foliage

An ancient temple supported by common people

Dedicated to Toyo'uke-no-Omikami

Known by locals as “Kurodani-san”

A famous location for autumn leaves, connected to Kukai (Kobo-daishi)

Happiness arrives with the buzzing of bell crickets

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.