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Heian Jingu

Recommended Major venue
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

To mark its 1,100th birthday, Kyoto built itself an enormous shrine, complete with a 24m-high ...

Ginkaku-ji

Recommended Major venue
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

While Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion lives up to its dazzling name, Ginkaku-ji (the Silver ...

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Recommended
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

A big, grey box designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki is the unbecoming home of ...

Nanzen-ji

Recommended
Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Japan loves to rank its attractions, and since the 14th century Nanzen-ji has been rated the ...

Weissraum Gallery

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

The name ‘white room’ suggests an archetypical modern art gallery: an open, symmetrical cube. ...

Philosopher’s Path

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

It’s easy to see why philosopher Kitaro Nishida chose this route for his meditative strolls. ...

Nomura Art Museum

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Like all good magnates, the founder of the Nomura financial conglomerate had a passion for art. ...

Murin-an

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

In 1903, the year before the Russo-Japanese War, four leaders gathered to plan foreign policy ...

Kyoto Museum of Traditional Crafts

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Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

What this museum lacks in depth, it makes up for in breadth, with introductions to every ...

Kyoto Municipal Zoo

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

It may be Japan’s second largest zoo, but it’s rather a sorry home for around 700 beasts. The ...

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

The ‘City of Kyoto’ is listed as the official architect of this monumental building. If so, the ...

Hosomi Museum

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Three generations of the Hosomi family built an extraordinary private collection of Japanese ...

Eikan-do

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

Eikan-do calls itself ‘the Temple of Maple Leaves’, but that’s a little modest for a complex ...

Kampo Museum

Museums & Sights  |  Sep 22 2009

The ‘Kampo’ Museum is named after Kampo Harada, the most eminent calligrapher of the 20th ...

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