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京都府 · Shrines & temples

Matanozoki

宮津市丹後

Look through your legs and it appears as a bridge across the sky.

京都府 · Shrines & temples

Kono Jinja

宮津市丹後

Held to be the original shrine of Ise Jingu, and called Moto-Ise. Its Amabe genealogy is a National Treasure.

京都府 · Shrines & temples

Motoise Naiku

福知山市丹波・中丹

Said to be where the deity of Ise Jingu was enshrined before settling at its present site.

京都府 · Shrines & temples

Nioumon

綾部市丹波・中丹

Its shingled Nio gate is the only National Treasure building in northern Kyoto Prefecture.

京都府 · Tourism

Gion Matsuri

京都市京都市内

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. The townspeople have kept it going for over a thousand years.

京都府 · Tourism

Arashiyama

京都市京都市内

The Togetsukyo bridge and the bamboo grove. A villa district of the nobility since the Heian period.

京都府 · Tourism

Gion

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Teahouse buildings run the length of the street. It grew up as the gate town of Yasaka Jinja.

京都府 · Tourism

Nijo-jo

京都市京都市内

The Ninomaru palace is a National Treasure. This is where the return of power to the emperor was declared.

京都府 · Tourism

Nishiki Market

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The kitchen of Kyoto. More than 130 shops along 400 metres.

京都府 · Tourism

Philosopher's Path

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Two kilometres along the Lake Biwa Canal. Nishida Kitaro used to walk it.

京都府 · Tourism

Aoi Matsuri

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The oldest of the three great festivals of Kyoto. A procession in Heian dress moves from the palace to the shrine.

京都府 · Tourism

Jidai Matsuri

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A procession in costume from the Heian period through to Meiji. The festival of Heian Jingu.

京都府 · Tourism

Amanohashidate

宮津市丹後

One of the three great views of Japan: 8,000 pines on a sandbar 3.6 kilometres long.

京都府 · Tourism

Ine no Funaya

伊根町丹後

The ground floor is a boathouse, the upper floor a home. Two hundred and thirty of them ring the bay.

京都府 · Tourism

Uji Tea

宇治市山城

Gyokuro and matcha are made by shading the plants before harvest. The trade grew up to meet the demand of the tea ceremony.

京都府 · Tourism

Kurama Fire Festival

京都市京都市内

People carrying torches parade through the village. One of the three strange festivals of Kyoto.

京都府 · Tourism

Sagano Romantic Train

京都市京都市内

A disused stretch of the old Sanin main line, turned into a sightseeing railway. It runs through the Hozu gorge.

京都府 · Art & museums

Kyoto National Museum

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The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.

京都府 · Art & museums

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art

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Japan's oldest surviving public art museum building, updated by digging the ground away and sliding a glass entrance beneath it.

京都府 · Art & museums

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

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Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.

京都府 · Art & museums

Hosomi Museum

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Three generations of collecting Rinpa and Jakuchu, in a building that descends underground away from the street.

京都府 · Art & museums

Jotenkaku Museum

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Holds what Shokokuji and its sub-temples Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji kept, including Jakuchu's ink panels for the Golden Pavilion.

京都府 · Art & museums

Museum of Kyoto

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Its annex is Tatsuno's former Bank of Japan branch, red brick banded in white stone, still on Sanjo street.

京都府 · Art & museums

Ryukoku Museum

京都市京都市内

Traces Buddhism's route from India to Japan, and rebuilds the lost Bezeklik cave murals at full size.