Best around Kansai Spot List

Enjoy a relaxing walk down this magical path

A movie theater and 130 specialty stores in the Kyoto Station area

Full of moving experiences; the most pandas in one place out of all Japan

The head shrine of all the Inari-jinja shrines across Japan. Its approximately 1,000 photogenic torii gates (an archway to a Shinto shrine) attract many visitors.

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.”

Kudo-no-kami, the god of the kitchen, is enshrined here

This lushly green shrine faces Midosuji boulevard and is more than 1600 years old

Stroll along the heart-shaped pond in the garden

Make memories in Kobe’s picturesque herb garden, the largest in Japan

Famous for a painted fusuma from Tohaku Hasegawa

From crafts, paintings, and more: this museum has many famous works on display

A resort that boasts sophisticated facilities and rooms with a marvelous panoramic view

Picturesque white sands and green pine trees at the base of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge

Enjoy Japan's outstanding weeping cherry blossoms

Where the guardian buck and doe are enshrined

Meet overwhelmingly large dinosaur skeleton specimens

A treasure trove of anime products

Known for its god that brings economic blessings

A mortuary temple for the imperial household

Founded in 1895 for the 1,100th anniversary of the relocation of the capital city to the Heian-kyo, the shrine reproduces the Imperial Palace of the Heian-kyo. It enshrines Emperor Kanmu and Emperor Komei.