Best Architecture Spot List

A beautiful castle otherwise known as Shirasagi-jo Castle. It was Japan's first UNESCO World Heritage site.

Known for “the evening bell of Mii-dera”, one of the Eight Views of Omi

This ancient temple contains the history of the Southern Dynasty

The scattered fallen leaves in autumn are beautiful

The nation’s head Koyasan Shingon-shu temple

A shrine built to represent the nation's wish for peace. Yushukan displays relics and wills, and it is worth visiting.

A 300-m-high, one of Japan's highest buildings, Abeno Harukas is a landmark of Oasaka that features a department store, an art museum and a hotel.

Kudo-no-kami, the god of the kitchen, is enshrined here

The Naritasan Shinshoji Temple has attracted many worshipers for more than 1,000 years. There are many assets designated as an Important Cultural Properties on its vast temple grounds.

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

Tokyo's iconic Tokyo Tower offers visitors a panoramic view of central Tokyo from its two observation decks. The tower itself is also popular for its night-time illumination.

The main temple of the Shingon Sect of the Daigo School of Buddhism that stretches across Mt. Daigo. Famous for its cherry blossoms, Hideyoshi Toyotomi used to hold spring parties here to enjoy the trees when they are in bloom.

A shrine that has a beautiful vermilion-lacquered shrine pavilion from the Edo period. It is also called Sanja Gongen (in honor of three men who founded the temple), and the Sanja Matsuri held in May is one of the Three Great Festivals of Edo (now Tokyo).

An ancient temple known as an exemplary viewing spot for autumn leaves since the Heian period.

Founded in 1895 for the 1,100th anniversary of the relocation of the capital city to the Heian-kyo, the shrine reproduces the Imperial Palace of the Heian-kyo. It enshrines Emperor Kanmu and Emperor Komei.

Having many children themselves, rabbits symbolize safe child-rearing here

A temple that has long protected Arima Onsen

Famous for its deity of scholarship

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

A temple with strings of ”monkey charms”