Travel Destinations in Kyoto

Manpuku-ji

Ming Chinese Zen in Uji, With a Monks' Vegetarian Lunch by Booking

Head temple of the Obaku school of Zen, founded in 1661 by the Chinese monk Ingen and built in la...

Kozan-ji

A World Heritage Temple in a Cedar Forest, Home of the Frolicking Animals

A UNESCO World Heritage temple in the cedars at Toganoo, revived by the monk Myoe in 1206, known ...

Michi-no-Eki Maizuru Port Toretore Center

Choose seafood for lunch in western Maizuru

Maizuru Port Toretore Center turns a Route 175 stop into a seafood-market visit. Fish sellers can...

Kyoto National Museum

Kyoto's Temple Treasures, Rotated Monthly Behind a Meiji Brick Facade

Opened in 1897 to protect the cultural property handed down in Kyoto, the museum shows its own co...

Michi-no-Eki Mizuho-no-Sato Sarabiki

Kyotamba soba and produce on Route 173

Mizuho-no-Sato Sarabiki pairs a produce market with soba made from Kyotamba buckwheat on Route 17...

Jakko-in

The Nunnery Where the Heike Story Ends

The small Ohara nunnery where Kenreimon-in retired after the Heike were destroyed at Dannoura. Th...

Michi-no-Eki Woody Keihoku

Woodcraft and local food on the Shuzan road

In Shuzan, north of central Kyoto, Woody Keihoku connects a farm shop and restaurant with the sur...

Seimei Shrine

A Pentagram on the Torii Where Kyoto's Court Diviner Lived

A small shrine on busy Horikawa-dori, built in 1007 on the site of the house of Abe no Seimei, th...

Yasaka Pagoda (Hokan-ji)

The Five-Storey Pagoda at the End of Kyoto's Most Photographed Lane

A 46-metre, five-storey pagoda rebuilt in 1440 that closes the view down Yasaka-dori. The street ...

Michi-no-Eki Kyoto Shinkoetsu Mura

Local rice and farm produce at Sonobe IC

Beside Sonobe IC, Kyoto Shinkoetsu Mura gathers local rice, vegetables and prepared products from...

Michi-no-Eki Galleria Kameoka

Kameoka produce beside a community learning center

Galleria Kameoka combines a roadside station with a public learning and events facility on Route ...

Michi-no-Eki Miyama Fureai Hiroba

Miyama milk and farm produce before the thatched village

Miyama Fureai Hiroba combines the Flat Miyama farm shop, a dairy counter and visitor information ...

Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art

A former hillside villa brings domestic architecture, craft and modern gallery spaces together ab...

Ashiu Forest

Kyoto University's Old-Growth Research Forest, Where the Best Valleys Need a Guide

About 4,200 hectares of beech and cedar forest at the source of the Yura River, run by Kyoto Univ...

Kyoto Botanical Garden

Japan's Oldest Public Botanical Garden, Straight Off Kitayama Station

Opened in 1924 and billed as Japan's oldest public botanical garden: 24 hectares by the Kamo Rive...