Best Temples around Kansai Spot List

A mortuary temple for the imperial household

Famous for its beautiful cherry blossoms and autumn leaves

Himeji’s famous mountain-top temple

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

Featuring a wooden statue of a historical Shogun from the Ashikaga period

The first of 33 temples on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, Seiganto-ji is an ever-popular destination for worshipers

The nation’s head Koyasan Shingon-shu temple

Spend your time comfortably in the visitor's lodging at a first-class ryokan

A school that embodies the dreams of Buddhist teacher Kobo Daishi

One of the last temples to prohibit entry to women

The head temple of the Myoshin-ji Temple school of the Rinzai sect. It is Japan's largest Zen temple, with 46 sub-temples.

Several hundred structures are scattered across Mt. Hiei

An ancient temple with a beautiful garden, connected to Murasaki Shibibu

Stroll along the heart-shaped pond in the garden

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.

Quietly praying to the rakan statues on the hillsides

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

A Zen temple of the Rinzai School built in the scenic area of Arashimaya in Kyoto. It was built by Takauji Ashikaga in memory of the recently deceased Emperor Go-Daigo.

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

A temple with strings of ”monkey charms”