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Suirokaku (Waterway Bridge)
Heritage building
👍👍 The bridge makes for great photos, especially when you come early or late without the tourists.
4.60 (309 reviews)
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Shishinden (Ceremonial Palace)
Heritage building
👍👍 この場所を訪れると日本人で京都市出身で良かったと思えます。
予算や警備の都合、そして観光客だらけの京都の状況では不可能だったと思うが、出来れば今上天皇皇后両陛下の即位礼正殿の儀は、こちらでして頂きたかったです。
もしも敬宮愛子内親王殿下が天皇に御即位されるなら、ぜひこの地で即位礼正殿の儀をされ原点回帰...
4.60 (101 reviews)
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Shugakuin Imperial Villa
Historical landmark
Striking 17th-century imperial villa offering tours of its celebrated gardens with cascading ponds.
4.50 (1.1K reviews)
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Nanzenji Sammon Gate
Buddhist temple
👍 I capture an image of the entrance and carefully climb up the building to take another picture.
View from the highest level of the building gives me an eye-catching facility in the middle of the mountain, though marked with white like an unremovable dust on image.
With the landscape facing norther...
4.50 (279 reviews)
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Site of Konoe Residence
Historical landmark
👍👍 ["Few pointers:\nMust take note of the entrance and exit.\nFor dine-in, you must first find a seat first then you can queue up to buy your drinks.\nThe whole place was kept clean and it gave a very zen feeling.\nGreat experience to be here.\nQuite cool to be viewing the Sakura while in door and enjo...
4.50 (139 reviews)
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Kogetsudai
Garden
Tranquil Zen Buddhist garden offering landscaped grounds & raked sand with a conical sculpture.
4.50 (76 reviews)
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Ruins of Nijō Castle Tensyukaku (Keep Tower)
Historical landmark
👍👍 2022.9 案内板によると、1750年に落雷により焼失するまで、1626年に伏見城より移築された、内部地上5階、地下1階(外見、屋根5重)の天守閣があったとの事。後水尾天皇が、1626年に行幸の際に、天守閣に2回登られたとの事で、「天皇が登った唯一の天守閣」と呼ばれ、徳川幕府の全盛を象徴するものとされていた。天守閣からは...
4.50 (44 reviews)
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Nijō Castle
Castle
Built in 1603, this cypress-wood castle with extensive gardens was a home for the shogun Ieyasu.
4.40 (35.8K reviews)
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Sannenzaka
Tourist attraction
Bustling pedestrian street on a hill lined with souvenir stalls & traditional Japanese architecture.
4.40 (13.5K reviews)
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Ninenzaka
Tourist attraction
Charming pedestrian thoroughfare known for its classic architecture, teahouses & cherry blossoms.
4.40 (7.8K reviews)
12
Kyoto Sento Imperial Palace
Historical landmark
Scenic grounds of a 17th-century palace destroyed by fire, with tree-lined footpaths & ponds.
4.40 (982 reviews)
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Tadasu-no-Mori Forest
Historical landmark
Peaceful forested park anchored by cherry & plum trees, a stream & walking paths.
4.40 (932 reviews)
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Site of Abstinence Palace
Historical landmark
👍👍 The Sagano Bamboo Forest in Kyoto, Japan is known not just for its visual allure but also for its aural beauty. The forest's natural noise was deemed so lovely that Japan’s Ministry of the Environment voted it one of the official “100 Soundscapes of Japan"
4.40 (251 reviews)
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Gion Weeping Cherry Tree
Scenic spot
👍👍 This is called a weeping tree? To me it looked more like the Exquisite Queen of Gion.
4.40 (215 reviews)
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Sekka-tei
Historical landmark
👍👍 ここは茶室のようです。
この茶室でお客様を呼んで密会とかを重ねていたのでしょう。
かまどもあるのでご飯とかも食べることができます。
夕佳亭の前にはちょっとした写真スポット的なものもあり、みなさん並んで写真を撮っていました。また手洗いをするところもあり色々と準備が整っていると感心しました。
夕佳亭の横の...
4.40 (44 reviews)
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Somei Well
Drinking water fountain
👍 京都御苑のすぐ東側には梨木神社(なしのきじんじゃ)があります。その梨木神社の本殿の南には手水舎を兼ねた井戸があります。こちらは、京都三大名水「佐女牛井（さめがい）・県井（あがたい）・染井（そめい）」の一つで、唯一現存している井戸なのだそう。
かつて京都が天皇を中心とする政治の中心だった頃、現在の京都御...
4.40 (37 reviews)
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Shogunzuka Mound
Historical landmark
Ancient mountaintop burial ground next to a temple with observation decks for sweeping views.
4.30 (1.3K reviews)
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Remains of the Kan-in-no-miya Residence
Local history museum
👍👍 Interesting building and film based explanation of the park history. Free access. Very few people venture there. A welcome opportunity to escape the tourist crowd
4.30 (289 reviews)