Best around Kansai Spot List

Two different windows overlooking a garden

Inherit Hikaru Genji's luck in love

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

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

Now the oldest and most comprehensive botanical gardens in all of Japan

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

A large-scale shopping complex located in front of Sannomiya station

Famous for its early blossoming cherry trees, which signify the coming of spring

Boasts an amazing stage modeled after a lion mask

Having many children themselves, rabbits symbolize safe child-rearing here

Famous for its strange festival, the Kurama Fire Festival

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

This large temple complex boasts a magnificent ancient hall

Experience the world inside the Man'yoshu

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

Known for its relation to the Fujiwara clan, this shrine boasts spectacular views of autumn foliage

The hermitage written about in ”Saga Nikki”

The Kyoto National Museum houses many artworks and cultural properties of Kyoto dating from the Heian period (794-1185) to the Edo period (1603-1868).

Enjoyable for all ages, offering everything from food, general goods, and fashion

Try the popular onsen with its own hot spring source