# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Tofuku-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tofuku-ji): Kyoto, Temple. One of Kyoto's Five Great Zen Temples. Best autumn foliage in the city. The view from Tsutenkyo Bridge over 2,000 maples is the shot everyone takes.
- [Seiryo-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/seiryo-ji): Kyoto, Temple. Houses the 'Living Buddha' statue brought from China in 987, a wooden Shaka Nyorai said to replicate the Buddha's true likeness. X-rays in 1953 revealed silk internal organs hidden inside.
- [Shugakuin Imperial Villa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shugakuin-imperial-villa): Kyoto, Garden. Built in the 1650s by retired Emperor Go-Mizunoo. Three terraced gardens using the Higashiyama mountains as borrowed scenery. Advance reservation required.
- [Ine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ine): Kyoto, Historic site. The 'Venice of Japan', a fishing village with 230 traditional funaya boat houses lining a tranquil bay, offering a glimpse of timeless coastal life.
- [Kitano Tenmangu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kitano-tenmangu): Kyoto, Shrine. A major shrine dedicated to the deity of learning and scholarship, celebrated for its 2,000 plum trees in early spring and the lively Tenjin flea market held on the 25th of every month.
- [Ujigami Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ujigami-shrine): Kyoto, Shrine. A small, free shrine on the east bank of the Uji River whose main hall Kyoto Prefecture lists as the oldest shrine building in Japan; tree-ring dating in 2004 put its timber at around 1060. The haiden in front is early Kamakura and built like a nobleman's house. Plain weathered wood, no paint, and done in 20 minutes. One of the 17 parts of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto World Heritage property.
- [Toei Kyoto Studio Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/toei-kyoto-studio-park): Kyoto, Theme park. A theme park and active film studio in Uzumasa where you walk an Edo-period townscape used for real samurai-drama shoots, with costumed actors, ninja shows and hands-on transformations.
- [Higashi Hongan-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/higashi-hongan-ji): Kyoto, Temple. Head temple of the Otani branch of Jodo Shinshu, with a Goei-do 76 metres wide that the temple counts among the world's largest wooden buildings. Free to enter, seven minutes' walk from Kyoto Station.
- [Adashino Nenbutsu-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/adashino-nenbutsu-ji): Kyoto, Temple. Around 8,000 stone buddhas and pagodas gathered from Adashino, a burial ground since the Heian period, standing in rows on the old road above Arashiyama.
- [Jingo-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/jingo-ji): Kyoto, Temple. A mountain temple of 824 above the Kiyotaki gorge, reached by about 400 stone steps, where visitors throw clay discs off the cliff to shed misfortune.
- [Manpuku-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/manpuku-ji): Kyoto, Temple. Head temple of the Obaku school of Zen, founded in 1661 by the Chinese monk Ingen and built in late Ming style, with teak halls, round windows and a laughing Hotei in the gate hall. It is 5 minutes from Obaku Station, entry is 500 yen, and the Chinese-style fucha vegetarian lunch must be booked three days ahead.
- [Sanzen-in](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sanzen-in): Kyoto, Temple. A Tendai monzeki temple in the Ohara valley, an hour north of the city, where moss gardens hide small carved jizo and a 12th-century hall holds a National Treasure Amida triad.
- [Honno-ji](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/honno-ji): Kyoto, Temple. The Nichiren-school temple linked to Oda Nobunaga's death in 1582, rebuilt on Teramachi-dori in 1592. The grounds and Nobunaga's mausoleum are free; the treasure house costs 700 yen.
- [Kyozuan Arashiyama](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kyozuan-arashiyama): Kyoto, Attraction. A small takeaway tofu-sweets counter at the start of the path to Arashiyama's bamboo grove, about five minutes' walk from Randen Arashiyama Station. Its tofu soft serve, made with silken tofu as well as soy milk, is dense enough that the shop's sign says it won't fall out of an upside-down cone.
- [Kyoto National Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kyoto-national-museum): Kyoto, Museum. Opened in 1897 to protect the cultural property handed down in Kyoto, the museum shows its own collection and works deposited by temples and shrines in the Heisei Chishinkan, with paintings changed almost every month. The collection show costs 700 yen; special exhibitions take over the building several times a year at a higher price.

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Last updated: 2026-11-12
