Nijō Castle is a flatland castle in Kyoto, Japan. The castle consists of two concentric rings (Kuruwa) of fortifications, the Ninomaru Palace, the ruins of the Honmaru Palace, various support buildings and several gardens. The surface area…

Shimogamo Shrine in Japanese, is the common name of an important Shintosanctuary in the Shimogamo district of Kyoto city's Sakyō ward. Its formal name is Kamo-mioya-jinja . It is one of the oldest Shinto shrines in Japan and is one of the …

The Enryaku-ji temple is one of the popular world heritage in Shiga prefecture,neighbor of Kyoto. This temple is famous for burned out by the famous Military commander Oda Nobunaga. Enryaku-ji is a Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei in…

Kiyomizu-dera temple is the one of the most famous temple in Kyoto. This temple is famous for the words "Kiyomizu no butai kara tobioriru ". In English this means "Just like you jump off a cliff into a lake or the ocean". Kiyomizu-dera , o…

Byodo-In is a temple in Uji-city,southward of Kyoto city. The shape of this temple is seems to be a phoenix. We Japanese are fascinated the beauty. This shrine is famous for the design in the back side of 10 yen coin.Please check the 10 ye…

We introduced about Kinkakuji-temple previous day. The Ginkaku-ji temple is the contrast to the Kinkaku-ji temple. The reason is simple. The word Kin means the "Gold", and the word "Gin" means the "Silver".The Kinkaku-ji temple is gorgeous…

There are 17 World heritages in Kyoto. Ryoanji -temple is also the one of the World heritage. Roanji -temple is famous for its garden.The symbolic structure of the thought "Zen style " Almost all of Japanese is fascinated by the beautiful …

There are a lot of Japanese traditional buildings in Kyoto,for example Temples(In Japanese "Tera") and Shrine(In Japanese "Jinja"), Some Temples and Shrines is has been registed as World Heritage. We are going to introduce representtive bu…