Temples and shrines

Temple

Highlights and how to get to Genko-an Temple.

Genko-an Temple, a temple of the Soto sect, is situated in Takagamine in Kita Ward, Kyoto City.The honorific mountain na...
Region

Highlights and how to get to Kamigamo-jinja Shrine.

Kamigamo-jinja Shrine is one of the Japanese oldest Shinto shrines along with Shimogamo-jinja Shrine.Along with Shimogam...
Temple

Highlights and how to get to Ninna-ji Temple.

Ninna-ji Temple is an old historic temple with the history more than 1,900 years which was founded for 888 years by the ...
Temple

Highlights and how to get to Ryoan-ji Temple.

There is the Japan's most famous Hojo garden of the dry landscape japanese garden in Ryoan-ji temple.And this temple has...
Aug.

Highlights and how to get to Daikaku-ji Temple.

Daikaku-ji Temple in Sagano of Kyoto is the head temple of a Buddhist sect of Shingon Buddhism Daikaku-ji Temple group.T...
Aug.

Highlights and how to get to Adashino Nenbutsu-ji Temple.

The place name of this temple '化野' is pronounced as 'Adashino'.The word 'Adashino' has the meaning of "ephemeral" or "em...
Temple

Highlights and how to get to Sanjusangen-do Temple.

"Where is the temple which is the most impressive in the temple which you have seen so far?"My answer is "Sanjusangen-do...
Temple

Highlights and how to get to Otagi-Nebutsu-ji Temple.

This temple is the small temple which there is in the northern part of Arashiyama.The chief priest of this temple was th...
Aug.

Highlights and how to get to the Higashi Otani Mantoe Festival.

O-bon is observed during the month of August.Every household welcomes back its ancestors' departed souls to this world d...
Jul.

Highlights and how to get to Ofusa Kannon Temple.

Ofusa Kannon is the common name of the Buddhist temple located in Ousa-cho, Kashimara City, Nara Prefecture.The formal n...