Best Temples around Kansai Spot List

The roads are covered with colorful leaves in autumn

Twin Dragons created during the Heisei period watch over Kyoto’s oldest Zen temple

Famous for a painted fusuma from Tohaku Hasegawa

Blessed with knowledge by Monju

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

Stroll along the heart-shaped pond in the garden

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

Famous for its majestic, moss-covered garden

Two different windows overlooking a garden

A temple famous for its Bone Buddhas

The scattered fallen leaves in autumn are beautiful

A thatched hut that stands in lush greenery

Tadao Ando designed this temple's main hall

A spiritual area surrounding Kobo Daishi’s mausoleum

Happiness arrives with the buzzing of bell crickets

The main temple of the Shingon Sect of the Daigo School of Buddhism that stretches across Mt. Daigo. Famous for its cherry blossoms, Hideyoshi Toyotomi used to hold spring parties here to enjoy the trees when they are in bloom.

The nation’s head Koyasan Shingon-shu temple

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

A temple of the Nichiren sect on Mt. Ogura in Sagano. It is well-known for ”Hyakunin Isshu” (a collection of 100 poems by 100 different poets). In autumn, the nearby mountains awash with brilliant red leaves.

Several hundred structures are scattered across Mt. Hiei