Best Architecture Spot List

This temple guesthouse is home to national treasures

A temple founded in Higashiyama by Hideyoshi Toyotomi's wife, Nene, to mourn his passing and pray for his soul. The nighttime illuminations in spring, summer and fall are beautiful to see.

The head temple of the Shingon Sect's Omuro School. Holding a long association with the Imperial Household, the temple is also well known for its late-blooming cherry trees called Omuro-zakura.

The National Diet Building is the center of law-making in Japan. Visitors can tour the building and observe the creativity and originality that were poured into the design of the building, including its stained glass windows and ceilings.

Flowers blossom throughout the seasons at this temple, also known as “The Flower Temple”

Here resides the god who watches over Kyoto's kitchens

A soto-zen Buddhist temple, better known as Toyokawa Inari, which had been worshiped by both the mighty warriors of each era and common people of Edo-Tokyo. You can make a pilgrimage to the seven lucky gods and enjoy viewing lit paper lanterns.

A school that embodies the dreams of Buddhist teacher Kobo Daishi

The Matsuchiyama Shoden Honryu-in Temple close to Senso-ji Temple, is recognized as a ”power spot” by the common people. On this spot they pray for the material benefits in this world. With Y-shaped daikon radishes and kinchaku (Japanese traditional style pouch) people pray for finding a suitable marriage partner and for matrimonial happiness.

Dedicated to Toyo'uke-no-Omikami

It is a large-scale conference and exhibition facility in Chiba Prefecture. The facility is bustling with big events in culture, arts, and sports.

The homeland of a goddess at Ise Grand Shrine, located in the old Tango Province

The dignified form of this early Edo period castle is still palpable

An old town house to relax in

Komagata Bridge on the Sumida River is 150 meters long and has over 80 years of history.

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 its cherry blossoms and being one of Kyoto’s three Kumano Shrines

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

It is the palace where the generations of Emperors and Empresses of Japan have lived starting in the Meiji era (1868-1912) to this day. You can visit the palace site as long as you obtain prior permission.

The most sacred of the three Dewa Sanzan