Tourist attractions in Kyoto Prefecture: profiles, services and practical information.
Amanohashidate Station is small, but it organises much of the arrival to one of Kyoto Prefecture’s best-known landscapes. It is about a five-minute walk from the Monju e…
View profile →Amanohashidate crosses Miyazu Bay as a roughly 3.6-kilometre strip of sand and pine trees, one of Japan’s classic scenic landscapes. It is not a continuous seaside prome…
View profile →Iwatayama Monkey Park turns a short outing into a nature visit. From the entrance, across Togetsukyo Bridge, a mountain path climbs to a lookout where Japanese macaques…
View profile →Tenryu-ji stands at the heart of Arashiyama’s history. It was founded in 1339 by order of shogun Ashikaga Takauji to honour Emperor Go-Daigo, with Zen monk Muso Soseki a…
View profile →The Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum occupies a brewery built in 1909 in Fushimi, a Kyoto district known for its groundwater and long sake-making tradition. Gekkeikan was fou…
View profile →Torisei Main Store occupies a former brewery in Fushimi and is associated with Yamamoto Honke, a sake producer founded in 1677. High ceilings and timber beams preserve t…
View profile →Kasamatsu Park overlooks Amanohashidate from the north side of the bay, near Motoise Kono Shrine and the Ichinomiya pier. Visitors ascend by cable car or chairlift from…
View profile →Amanohashidate View Land sits at the southern end of the sandbar, a few minutes’ walk from Amanohashidate Station. You cannot walk or drive up a road to the summit: admi…
View profile →Fushimi Inari Taisha is not simply a photogenic corridor but a mountain shrine whose official history dates to 711. It is the head shrine of a network of around 30,000 I…
View profile →Tōfuku-ji was conceived by regent Kujō Michiie, who took the characters for “east” and “fortune” from Nara’s great temples Tōdai-ji and Kōfuku-ji. Construction began in…
View profile →Taihoan is a municipal tea house opposite Byodoin, beside the Uji River. Its sukiya-style architecture and combination of tatami and table seating make the tea ceremony…
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