Best Architecture Spot List

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

This temple guesthouse is home to national treasures

A shrine to visit for breaking bad habits or starting good ones

This is a popular shrine for enmusubi-mairi, praying for a good marriage match. Weathered, miniature Shinto shrines on the shrine grounds invite your profound interest.

You can experience making a Buddhist rosary using genuine stones, while looking at the graceful garden

Famous for its strange festival, the Kurama Fire Festival

Marvel at the sight of money being produced before you

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

An historic shrine favored as a place of rest and relaxation by locals

The centerpiece of the sacred Dewa Sanzan

An old town house to relax in

The Nikko Tamozawa Imperial Villa is one of the largest of all wooden imperial villas to be erected during the Meiji Era. Today, guests can tour the inside of the villa as well as its yard.

Built in 1926, this was the residence of a silk yarn trader. You can have tea there while feeling the season.

This ancient temple contains the history of the Southern Dynasty

A shrine for a popular matchmaking deity and associated with the puppet play “Sonezaki Shinju”

Ohyama Afuri Shrine is located on the top of Mt. Oyama. This historical shrine has been worshiped by common people as well as many military commanders in the past.

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

Famous for a painted fusuma from Tohaku Hasegawa

A temple associated with Heian-era poet Ariwara no Narihara

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.