Best Architecture Spot List

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.”

Known by locals as “Kurodani-san”

A sacred place connected to Hideyoshi

A house built in late Taisho era, after the Great Kanto Earthquake, as a residence for foreigners.

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.

Akasaka Palace, or the State Guest House, is a neo baroque-style building with a stately, gorgeous look. It welcomes state and official guests from all over the world.

The magnificent appearance of this building is the symbol of Nakanoshima

Indulge in tea while gazing at the garden

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

An ancient temple supported by common people

Atago Shrine is a scenically situated shrine perched 26 meters above sea level atop Mount Atago.

A temple with strings of ”monkey charms”

Pray for good health and matchmaking at this shrine built for subduing an epidemic

Where the successful Hideyoshi Toyotomi worshipped the three-faced Daikokuten

The abbot’s chambers are surrounded by four gardens

The head shrine of all the Kasuga-jinja shrines all over Japan, it is located on Mt. Mikasa, which has been treated as a sacred area since ancient times. In 2018, the shrine commemorated its 1,250th anniversary.

The object of worship here is Amida Nyorai and the statue of Prince Shotoku in the main hall is an important cultural property

A shinto shrine enshrining Mount Fuji, the symbol of Japan, worshiped by a large number of people.

A crimson tower glistening in the ocean and sky

Displaying works by master artists