# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Ninna-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ninna-ji): Kyoto, Temple. A World Heritage Site and former imperial palace temple, famed for its late-blooming Omuro cherry blossoms that mark the end of Kyoto's sakura season. - [Nanzoin Temple](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nanzoin-temple): Fukuoka, Temple. Shingon Buddhist temple housing the world's largest bronze reclining Buddha statue at 41 meters long, set in a forested mountain valley. - [Daigo-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/daigo-ji): Kyoto, Temple. A sprawling World Heritage Site famous for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's legendary 1598 cherry blossom viewing party and Kyoto's oldest wooden structure, the five-story pagoda. - [Motsuji Temple](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/motsuji-temple): Iwate, Temple. A UNESCO World Heritage temple in Hiraizumi featuring one of Japan's finest Pure Land gardens from the Heian period. - [Kurama-dera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kurama-dera): Kyoto, Temple. A powerful mountain temple said to be where Yoshitsune trained as a child. The forested trail connecting Kurama to neighboring Kifune is one of Kyoto's best hikes. - [Nishi Hongan-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nishi-hongan-ji): Kyoto, Temple. Head temple of the Hongwanji branch of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, on this site since 1591. Entry is free, the gates open at 5:30, and you can sit on the tatami of two huge halls, the 1636 Goei-do and the 1760 Amida-do. The Hiunkaku pavilion and the Shoin with the oldest surviving Noh stage are usually closed. One of the 17 parts of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto World Heritage property. - [Nanzen-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nanzen-ji): Kyoto, Temple. Highest-ranked Rinzai Zen temple in Kyoto. The 22-meter sanmon gate has city views from the top. The brick aqueduct from 1890 is the Instagram shot. - [Tachibana-dera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tachibana-dera): Nara, Temple. A Tendai temple on the spot where, by tradition, Prince Shotoku was born. The Asuka-period temple is gone; what survives in the grounds is the foundation stone of a pagoda burned by lightning in 1148 and the Nimen-seki, a stone carved with two faces. The main hall dates from the 1860s. The grounds are the Tachibana-dera Ruins, one of the 19 parts of the Ancient Capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara World Heritage property. Entry 500 yen, 9:00 to 17:00. - [Engyo-ji Temple](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/engyo-ji-temple): Hyogo, Temple. A sprawling 1000-year-old temple complex atop Mount Shosha, famous as a filming location for 'The Last Samurai' and accessible by scenic ropeway. - [Ryozenji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ryozenji): Tokushima, Temple. Temple #1 of the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage, where most pilgrims begin their 1,200-kilometer journey around the island and purchase their pilgrim supplies. - [Asuka-dera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/asuka-dera): Nara, Temple. A small hall in the fields of Asuka on the site of the temple Soga no Umako began in 588. Inside sits the bronze Asuka Daibutsu, about 2.75 m tall, which the temple dates to 609 and calls Japan's oldest Buddha statue. It was badly damaged in a fire in 1196 and is patched, but you can stand a few metres away and photograph it, which almost no other old temple allows. Entry is 500 yen. - [Kodai-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kodai-ji): Kyoto, Temple. The Zen temple Toyotomi Hideyoshi's widow Nene founded in 1606 to pray for him, with her tomb under a gold-lacquered mausoleum, two tea houses from the early 1600s and a bamboo grove. Entry is 800 yen, and in autumn the gardens are lit until 22:00. - [Gio-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/gio-ji): Kyoto, Temple. A small thatched-roof temple blanketed in luminous green moss, linked to a tragic love story from the Tale of the Heike. One of Arashiyama's most serene and intimate spots. - [Hokki-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hokki-ji): Nara, Temple. A small temple among fields on the north-east edge of Ikaruga. Its three-storey pagoda, finished in 706, is the oldest of its kind in Japan and part of the Horyu-ji World Heritage listing. There is not much else inside the wall. Come for the walk out from Horyu-ji and, from mid-October to early November, the cosmos planted around the pagoda. - [Jojakko-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/jojakko-ji): Kyoto, Temple. Hillside temple in Sagano, best in autumn. The pagoda surrounded by red and orange maples is the shot everyone takes in November. Page 4 of 9. Previous page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?destination_type=temple&page=3 Next page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?destination_type=temple&page=5 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?destination_type=temple&page=4) Last updated: 2026-11-13