Best Architecture Spot List

A shrine famous for its ”Wedded Rocks”

A large temple in Nara featuring many structures that illustrate the culture from the Tempyo Period. It is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

A crimson tower glistening in the ocean and sky

A temple famous for its Bone Buddhas

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.

Happiness arrives with the buzzing of bell crickets

A famous location for autumn leaves, connected to Kukai (Kobo-daishi)

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

An ancient temple supported by common people

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

The head temple of the Rinzai sect, known as the highest-ranked Zen temple in Japan.

Famous as a spiritual site believed to bring good luck in marriage

Famous for its strange festival, the Kurama Fire Festival

Where the successful Hideyoshi Toyotomi worshipped the three-faced Daikokuten

A Tendai sect temple with the magnificent natural monument, Yoryu no Matsu

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.

A beautiful temple like the Pure Land itself that illustrates the prosperity of the Fujiwara regency during the late Heian Period.

This is a shrine founded on the vast premises surrounded by the mountains of Nikko. It is familiar to people as the god of luck and marital matchmaking.

Tie your prayers under the branches of the willow trees

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.”