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京都府 · Art & museums

Kyoto Station Building

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A vast glass structure dropped into a historic city, with a 171-metre atrium and a stair climbing to the roof - fiercely contested when built.

京都府 · Art & museums

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Ando dropped the floor to the level of the canal so people can touch the water - a small building that changed a city's relation to its river.

京都府 · Art & museums

Kyoto Art Center

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A 1931 elementary school turned over to artists; the classrooms are the studios.

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Funaya Boat Houses of Ine

伊根町丹後

Ground floors open straight onto the sea so boats drive into the house; 230 of them ring the bay.

京都府 · Art & museums

Amanohashidate

宮津市丹後

One of Japan's three great views, with a prescribed way of looking at it - bent over, upside down, between your own legs.

京都府 · Art & museums

Tango Chirimen Silk Crepe

与謝野町丹後

Silk hard-twisted then shrunk in hot water to raise its crinkled surface; most of Japan's undyed kimono cloth is woven here.

京都府 · Art & museums

Miyama Thatched Village

南丹市丹波・中丹

Most of the village is still thatched, and the rethatching is still done by the villagers together.

京都府 · Art & museums

Maizuru Red Brick Park

舞鶴市丹波・中丹

Twelve naval warehouses surviving together - a military complex preserved as an ensemble of brickwork.

京都府 · Art & museums

Tea Fields of Uji

宇治市山城

Fields shaded with reed screens and straw before harvest to sweeten the leaf - the covers themselves a seasonal sight.

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Kyoto Dolls and Joinery

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Head, hair, limbs and costume are each made by a different specialist - the division of labour on which nearly all Kyoto craft runs.

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Kyoto Buddhist Implements

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With every sect's head temple in one city, demand never stopped; more than ten trades touch a single altar.

京都府 · Art & museums

Dry Gardens of Kyoto

京都市京都市内

The garden that shows water without using any was perfected in Kyoto's Zen temples - mountain, river and sea in stone alone.

京都府 · Regional selections

西芳寺（苔寺）

西京区歴史文化

A temple whose grounds are covered with some 120 kinds of moss. Said to have been founded by Gyoki in 731; visits must be booked in advance.

京都府 · Regional selections

Myokian Temple (National Treasure "Taian")

大山崎町歴史文化

A temple in Oyamazaki holding Taian, a two-mat tearoom attributed to Sen no Rikyu and designated a national treasure.

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Leisure & Spa Resort ASOBIYUKU Kyoto Rurikei Onsen

南丹市自然／宿泊

A hot spring and lodging in Nantan, refitted and reopened in April 2025.

京都府 · Regional selections

鹿苑寺（金閣寺）

北区歴史文化

A temple Ashikaga Yoshimitsu founded in 1397 as a mountain villa. Its gold-leafed reliquary hall is mirrored in the pond.

京都府 · Regional selections

Shimyo-in Temple

北区歴史文化／体験施設

A temple at the source of the Kamo River, said to have been founded by Kukai in 829.

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Mount Atago and Atago Shrine

右京区歴史文化

A 924-metre mountain and the shrine at its summit, revered as a guard against fire.

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広隆寺

右京区歴史文化

The oldest temple in Yamashiro, keeping the seated Miroku in contemplation that was the first object named a national treasure.

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Gion

東山区歴史文化

The quarter around Yasaka Shrine. The place name comes from the shrine's former title.

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三十三間堂

東山区歴史文化

A temple whose main hall runs about 120 metres. It is known by a name taken from its 33 bays.

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Togetsukyo Bridge

右京区歴史文化

A bridge over the Oi River at Arashiyama. Emperor Kameyama is said to have named it for the way the moon seems to cross it.

京都府 · Regional selections

貴船神社

左京区歴史文化

A shrine to the water deity. Rain-making rites were held here, and it is also known for matchmaking.

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Kyoto Aquarium

下京区文化施設

An aquarium in Umekoji Park, showing the giant salamander of Kyoto's rivers.