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Attractions in Kyoto

Wikipedia-tagged places from OpenStreetMap, bucketed by category. Click for the long-form list.

Historical sites

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  • Nijō Castle

  • Ninna temple

  • Ryōan-ji

    Ryōan-ji is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism. The Ryōan-ji garden is considered one of the finest surviving examples of kare-sansui, a refined type of Japanese Zen temple garden design generally featuring distinctive larger rock formations arranged amidst a sweep of smooth pebbles raked into linear patterns that facilitate meditation. The temple and its gardens are listed as one of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

  • Kamigamo Shrine

  • Shimogamo Shrine

  • Kinkaku-ji

    Kinkaku-ji , officially named Rokuon-ji , is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan and a tourist attraction. It is designated as a World Heritage Site, a National Special Historic Site, a National Special Landscape, and one of the 17 Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto. The temple is nicknamed after its reliquary (shariden), the Golden Pavilion , whose top two floors are coated in 0.5 μm gold leaf. The current pavilion was rebuilt in 1955 after being destroyed in an arson attack.

Museums

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  • Kyoto National Museum

  • Hōshōkan Museum

  • Kyoto Railway Museum

  • Nomura Art Museum

  • Kyoto International Manga Museum

    The Kyoto International Manga Museum is located in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The museum's collection includes approximately 300,000 items as of 2016, with 50,000 volumes of manga that can be accessed and read by visitors and approximately 250,000 items in its closed-stack collection, which can be accessed via a dedicated research room supported by reference facilities. Collected materials include Edo period woodblock prints, pre-war magazines, post-war rental books, and popular modern series from around the world.

  • Fukuda Art Museum

Religious & sacred sites

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  • Ishiyama-dera

  • Tanukidanisan Fudō-in

  • Sanjūsangen-dō

  • Hirano Shrine

  • Konkai kōmyō-ji

  • Saiun-in

Parks & nature

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  • Mt. Hiei

  • Shosei Garden

  • Maruyama Park

  • Kyoto Botanical Garden

  • Umekōji Park

  • Karahashi Saiji Park

Entertainment

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  • Kyoto Aquarium

  • Monkey Park Iwatayama

  • TOEI Kyoto Studio Park

Shopping

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  • AEON Takatsuki

  • VIE.ORNER

  • Foleo

  • HIRAKATA T-SITE

  • Nishiki Market

  • Aeon Mall Kyōto Katsuragawa

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