Best Historic Sites around Kansai Spot List

An estate where Kishu samurai resided

Learn about the defenses of this castle town and building fireproofing

A wall painting of a beautiful woman was discovered here

The hermitage written about in ”Saga Nikki”

One of the world’s largest tombs built around the mid-fifth century

The mountain villa where a scholar lived a secluded life

The remains of Kumano Taisha Shrine, the birthplace of the Kumano faith

The beloved boathouse of Ryoma Sakamoto

Enjoy the Japanese architecture in the elegant drawing room

This tomb is sealed by a giant rock weighing 2,300 tons

Here at Shoren-in Temple, Emperor Kanmu prayed for peace for the capital and buried a shogun statue inside its burial mound

One of the most outstanding castle ruins in all of Japan

Mausoleum architecture representative of the early Edo period