Best Architecture Spot List

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.

Famous for its tea room, ”Hasso-no-seki”

Tadao Ando designed this temple's main hall

Happiness arrives with the buzzing of bell crickets

Hanazono-jinja Shrine in Shinjuku, loved by many as an urban oasis.

Super-tall floats light up the night sky

Occasionally open seasonally for cherry blossom, azalea, and fall leaves viewing

A stock exchange that offers tours. It is a symbol of Japanese economy where an estimated 61,000 people visit annually.

A lodging facility for guests on their way to visit Ise Jingu Shrine

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

This large temple complex boasts a magnificent ancient hall

Featuring a garden created by Motonobu Kano

An old town house to relax in

The Tokyo Gate Bridge is a large bridge that spans the Tokyo Port Sea Lane 3, with a total length of 2,618 meters.

Where the guardian buck and doe are enshrined

A temple located in the holy mountain of Kurama in Kyoto. Minamoto no Yoshitsune is said to have trained here, and visitors can feel the vibrant energy of nature and the universe.

The magnificent appearance of this building is the symbol of Nakanoshima

Enshrines Japan's top Shinto deity

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

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.”