Best Temples around Kansai Spot List

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

Famous for its majestic, moss-covered garden

A grand temple complex established on Mount Koya some 900 years ago

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

Famous for its beautiful cherry blossoms and autumn leaves

A Zen temple of the Rinzai Sect of Buddhism, world famous for its traditional rock garden.

The main training center for Shingon Esoteric Buddhism with its iconic five-story pagoda, the key landmark of Kyoto's scenery. The temple is known as ”Daishi's temple.”

Famous for the bell that angered Ieyasu

Fallen leaves on the road to the temple invite you to this high-status monzeki temple

Stroll along the heart-shaped pond in the garden

Beloved Buddha artifacts inside the school of Heijo Palace

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

Happiness arrives with the buzzing of bell crickets

Famous for its tea room, ”Hasso-no-seki”

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

Tadao Ando designed this temple's main hall

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

Worshipers are charmed by the many flowers and large Kannon statue

A temple built upon the request of Emperor Tenmu during the Hakuho Period. Reconstructed in recent years, the temple structures showcase beautiful, vibrant colors.

This temple guesthouse is home to national treasures