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Shoren-in

Recommended
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

A monzeki temple, meaning the head priest has to be of imperial blood, Shoren-in has been home ...

Ryozen Kannon

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Kodai-ji’s next-door neighbour is a 24m-high concrete bodhisattva that towers over a small ...

Namikawa Cloisonné Museum of Kyoto

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

The main reason to visit the old home of Yasuyuki Namikawa (1845-1927) is to see examples of ...

Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Check the artwork in the entrance to see whether the current exhibition at this five-floor ...

Galerie 16

Recommended FREE
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

One of the city’s best contemporary art spaces, Galerie 16 has been running since 1962. In ...

Chion-in

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

The entrance to Chion-in, the head temple of Buddhism’s Jodo sect, is as imposing as it is ...

Yasaka Jinja

FREE
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Before there was Kyoto, there was Gion Temple, established in 656. By the mid tenth century, ...

Ryozen Museum of History

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

This museum covers the characters and details of the Meiji Restoration, when the Shogunate was ...

Maruyama Park

FREE
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Though best known for a shidarezakura (weeping cherry tree) that lures visitors galore in ...

Kodai-ji

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

When Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the warrior who unified Japan, died in 1598, his grieving widow Nene ...

Kiyomizu-dera

Major venue
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

If you only visit one temple in Kyoto, make it this World Heritage behemoth. From the balcony ...

Kennin-ji

Recommended
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Japan loves to rank its attractions, and Kyoto’s oldest Zen temple has been deemed the city’s ...

Ii Museum

Recommended
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Samurai helmets, swords and body armour are crammed into a huge townhouse in backstreet Gion. ...

Gallery Haneusagi

FREE
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Textiles, video art, installations, sculpture and even paintings are shown at this three-room ...

Entoku-in

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

After visiting Kodai-ji, step across the street to see Entoku-in, a sub-temple that for 19 ...

Ebisu Shrine

FREE
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Known locally as ‘Ebessan’, this shrine was established in 1202 as a guardian of Kennin-ji. It ...

Choraku-ji

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Like a B-lister’s house on the Hollywood Homes Tour, this temple struggles to impress amid such ...

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