Guidebook for Kyōto-shi
Sightseeing
Nijo Castle
541 NijōjōchōFormer Kyoto residence of the shogun.
The Kyoto Imperial Palace used to be the residence of Japan's Imperial Family.
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Kyoto Imperial Palace
3 KyōtogyoenThe Kyoto Imperial Palace used to be the residence of Japan's Imperial Family.
Imperial palace with beautiful gardens.Sento Imperial Palaceis a secondary palace complex across from the Kyoto Imperial Palace in Kyoto Imperial Park. and is located within the Kyoto Imperial Park. It can be reached from Kyoto Station in about 10 minutes
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Sentō Imperial Palace
Kyōtogyoen-2 Kamigyo WardImperial palace with beautiful gardens.Sento Imperial Palaceis a secondary palace complex across from the Kyoto Imperial Palace in Kyoto Imperial Park. and is located within the Kyoto Imperial Park. It can be reached from Kyoto Station in about 10 minutes
Former inn for visiting feudal lords. Nijo Jinya is a former inn used by feudal lords (daimyo) who were visiting Kyoto during the Edo Period.
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Nijo Jinya
137 SanbōōmiyachōFormer inn for visiting feudal lords. Nijo Jinya is a former inn used by feudal lords (daimyo) who were visiting Kyoto during the Edo Period.
Arashiyama is the second-most important sightseeing district in Kyoto. It’s filled with temples and shrines, but the star attraction is the famed Arashiyama Bamboo Grove.Arashiyama is in the far west of Kyoto, tucked along the base of the Arashiyama Mountains (meaning “Storm Mountains”). It’s a fair distance from the center of Kyoto: whether you go by train, bus, bicycle or taxi, you’re generally looking at about a 30-minute trip. Still, it’s worth it for the number of great sights here.
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Arashiyama
Sagatenryuji Tateishicho Ukyo WardArashiyama is the second-most important sightseeing district in Kyoto. It’s filled with temples and shrines, but the star attraction is the famed Arashiyama Bamboo Grove.Arashiyama is in the far west of Kyoto, tucked along the base of the Arashiyama Mountains (meaning “Storm Mountains”). It’s a fair distance from the center of Kyoto: whether you go by train, bus, bicycle or taxi, you’re generally looking at about a 30-minute trip. Still, it’s worth it for the number of great sights here.
"Gion is Kyoto's most famous geisha district, located around Shijo Avenue between Yasaka Shrine in the east and the Kamo River in the west. It is filled with shops, restaurants and ochaya (teahouses), where geiko (Kyoto dialect for geisha) and maiko (geiko apprentices) entertain.
Gion attracts tourists with its high concentration of traditional wooden machiya merchant houses. Due to the fact that property taxes were formerly based upon street frontage, the houses were built with narrow facades only five to six meters wide, but extend up to twenty meters in from the street."
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Gion Corner
570-2 Gionmachi Minamigawa"Gion is Kyoto's most famous geisha district, located around Shijo Avenue between Yasaka Shrine in the east and the Kamo River in the west. It is filled with shops, restaurants and ochaya (teahouses), where geiko (Kyoto dialect for geisha) and maiko (geiko apprentices) entertain.
Gion attracts tourists with its high concentration of traditional wooden machiya merchant houses. Due to the fact that property taxes were formerly based upon street frontage, the houses were built with narrow facades only five to six meters wide, but extend up to twenty meters in from the street."
"The Jodo Shinshu sect temples of Higashi & Nishi Honganji are a short walk north of Kyoto Station. Higashi-Honganji is the largest wooden structure in Kyoto and one of the largest wooden buildings in the world. Not spectacular but worth the walk. Of more interest is the more ornate Nishi-Honganji opposite. The narrow streets between the two temples contain many stores selling incense and Buddhist artefacts.
The Nishi-Honganji Temple is the headquarters of the Honganji branch of Jodo-Shinshu sect of Buddhism with millions of followers throughout the world. The temple was built in 1571 by the warlord Toyotomi Hidetoshi and is considered one of the finest examples of architecture from the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1573-1603).
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Higashi Hongan-ji Temple
常葉町 下京区"The Jodo Shinshu sect temples of Higashi & Nishi Honganji are a short walk north of Kyoto Station. Higashi-Honganji is the largest wooden structure in Kyoto and one of the largest wooden buildings in the world. Not spectacular but worth the walk. Of more interest is the more ornate Nishi-Honganji opposite. The narrow streets between the two temples contain many stores selling incense and Buddhist artefacts.
The Nishi-Honganji Temple is the headquarters of the Honganji branch of Jodo-Shinshu sect of Buddhism with millions of followers throughout the world. The temple was built in 1571 by the warlord Toyotomi Hidetoshi and is considered one of the finest examples of architecture from the Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1573-1603).
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Arts & Culture
"The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art is located in Okazaki Park where many other cultural facilities are centered. The building has a bronze roof and a unique western style of imperial architecture. The former museum was opened in 1933 as one of the celebration projects of the Emperor Showa’s ascendance to the imperial throne. This is the second earliest opened municipal museum of art in Japan.
The museum has a collection of roughly 2,100 art pieces which include Japanese paintings by Takeuchi Seiho, Tomioka Tessai, Uemura Shoen, Kikuchi Keigetsu, Kajiwara Hisako, Kanashima Keika, as well as western paintings, sculpture, crafts, calligraphy and wood block prints.
In the past, the museum has hosted a number of large scale special exhibitions featuring parts of the collection from the Louvre, important American museums, etc. Other special exhibitions featuring modern Japanese art and annual regular exhibitions are also popular. "
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Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art
124 Okazaki Enshōjichō"The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art is located in Okazaki Park where many other cultural facilities are centered. The building has a bronze roof and a unique western style of imperial architecture. The former museum was opened in 1933 as one of the celebration projects of the Emperor Showa’s ascendance to the imperial throne. This is the second earliest opened municipal museum of art in Japan.
The museum has a collection of roughly 2,100 art pieces which include Japanese paintings by Takeuchi Seiho, Tomioka Tessai, Uemura Shoen, Kikuchi Keigetsu, Kajiwara Hisako, Kanashima Keika, as well as western paintings, sculpture, crafts, calligraphy and wood block prints.
In the past, the museum has hosted a number of large scale special exhibitions featuring parts of the collection from the Louvre, important American museums, etc. Other special exhibitions featuring modern Japanese art and annual regular exhibitions are also popular. "
"The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MOMAK) was opened to the public on October 26, 1986 with a total floor area of 9,761.99㎡ and an exhibition area of 2,604.94㎡.
MOMAK is a national institution devoted to the collection and preservation of artworks and related reference materials of the twentieth century in Japan and other parts of the world. Particular emphasis is placed on artists or artistic movements in Kyoto and the Kansai area (the western region of Japan), such as Japanese-style paintings of the Kyoto School, with an overview of the mainstreams of Japanese modern art and craft movements as well as works from all over the world covering every genre of the crafts.
The Collection Gallery is comprised special themed sub-exhibitions that are synchronized with concurrent exhibitions or presents the Museum's research results. It also acts as a site for workshops and other educational programs organized by the Museum."
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Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Kyoto
26-1 Okazaki Enshōjichō"The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MOMAK) was opened to the public on October 26, 1986 with a total floor area of 9,761.99㎡ and an exhibition area of 2,604.94㎡.
MOMAK is a national institution devoted to the collection and preservation of artworks and related reference materials of the twentieth century in Japan and other parts of the world. Particular emphasis is placed on artists or artistic movements in Kyoto and the Kansai area (the western region of Japan), such as Japanese-style paintings of the Kyoto School, with an overview of the mainstreams of Japanese modern art and craft movements as well as works from all over the world covering every genre of the crafts.
The Collection Gallery is comprised special themed sub-exhibitions that are synchronized with concurrent exhibitions or presents the Museum's research results. It also acts as a site for workshops and other educational programs organized by the Museum."
Inspired by Kyoto traditional machiya townhouses, a fusion of traditional and modern design.Designed by OE Tadasu, the museum building incorporates traditional and modern design elements, featuring three floors above ground and two below. The museum was awarded the 40th Building Contractors Society Architecture Prize.
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Hosomi Museum
6-3 Okazaki SaishōjichōInspired by Kyoto traditional machiya townhouses, a fusion of traditional and modern design.Designed by OE Tadasu, the museum building incorporates traditional and modern design elements, featuring three floors above ground and two below. The museum was awarded the 40th Building Contractors Society Architecture Prize.
"This museum is a great museum for discovering the history and culture of Kyoto. Permanent displays can be found in the History of Kyoto section, the Fine Arts and Crafts Gallery, the Movie Hall, and the Movie Gallery. Special exhibitions are also held throughout the year.
The red-brick building housing the museum was once the Kyoto branch of the Bank of Japan. This Important Cultural Property is representative of Western-style architecture around the end of the 19th century. Visitors can also shop and dine at ""Roji-tenpo,"" a reconstructed Edo-Period merchant street."
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El Museo de Kyoto
623-1 Higashikatamachi"This museum is a great museum for discovering the history and culture of Kyoto. Permanent displays can be found in the History of Kyoto section, the Fine Arts and Crafts Gallery, the Movie Hall, and the Movie Gallery. Special exhibitions are also held throughout the year.
The red-brick building housing the museum was once the Kyoto branch of the Bank of Japan. This Important Cultural Property is representative of Western-style architecture around the end of the 19th century. Visitors can also shop and dine at ""Roji-tenpo,"" a reconstructed Edo-Period merchant street."
"This is the Japan's first museum devoted to manga. It offers a stunning array of materials with everything from 19th-century Japanese magazines and books to popular contemporary works from Japan and abroad. The museum carries roughly 200,000 manga and manga-related materials including survey research. Special exhibitions are also held here. In addition, the museum serves as a library. Visitors may also want to stop by the museum shop and coffee house.
Built in 1929, the manga museum building was originally used as an elementary school and still retains something of that appearance."
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Museo Internacional de Manga de Kyoto
452 Kinbukichō"This is the Japan's first museum devoted to manga. It offers a stunning array of materials with everything from 19th-century Japanese magazines and books to popular contemporary works from Japan and abroad. The museum carries roughly 200,000 manga and manga-related materials including survey research. Special exhibitions are also held here. In addition, the museum serves as a library. Visitors may also want to stop by the museum shop and coffee house.
Built in 1929, the manga museum building was originally used as an elementary school and still retains something of that appearance."
Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, located in Gion, opened in November 1981 to exhibit the work of modern and contemporary artists. Exhibited here are Japanese and Western style painting, industrial arts, photography and calligraphy by modern and contemporary artists, including the famous ceramicist Kitaoji Rosanjin (who is also the founder of the Bishoku Club), Kagaku Murakami and Kaoru Yamaguchi.
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Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art
271 Gionmachi KitagawaKyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, located in Gion, opened in November 1981 to exhibit the work of modern and contemporary artists. Exhibited here are Japanese and Western style painting, industrial arts, photography and calligraphy by modern and contemporary artists, including the famous ceramicist Kitaoji Rosanjin (who is also the founder of the Bishoku Club), Kagaku Murakami and Kaoru Yamaguchi.
"Kyoto Art Center is a venue for exchange and mutual stimulus among artists. This program supports the creative activities of artists and researchers in the arts, who aim to derive new artistic expression from exposure to another culture. Participants in the program create and research arts while based at Kyoto Art Center. The Center aims also to serve as a place where Kyoto citizens can encounter different forms of artistic expression. Kyoto Art Center welcomes artists who wish to experiment with new forms of expression within a genre, or to step beyond a genre. The Center is particularly interested in working with those who have the desire to build rapport with Kyoto citizens.
Kyoto Art Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program offers support to emerging artists and art researchers who wish to pursue creative activities in Kyoto. They call for applications from the artists/researchers in performing arts and visual arts alternately. In 2015, the program is open to the artists and researchers working in visual arts."
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Kyoto Art Center
546-2 Yamabushiyamachō"Kyoto Art Center is a venue for exchange and mutual stimulus among artists. This program supports the creative activities of artists and researchers in the arts, who aim to derive new artistic expression from exposure to another culture. Participants in the program create and research arts while based at Kyoto Art Center. The Center aims also to serve as a place where Kyoto citizens can encounter different forms of artistic expression. Kyoto Art Center welcomes artists who wish to experiment with new forms of expression within a genre, or to step beyond a genre. The Center is particularly interested in working with those who have the desire to build rapport with Kyoto citizens.
Kyoto Art Center’s Artist-in-Residence Program offers support to emerging artists and art researchers who wish to pursue creative activities in Kyoto. They call for applications from the artists/researchers in performing arts and visual arts alternately. In 2015, the program is open to the artists and researchers working in visual arts."
"The Kyoto National Museum exists to house, display, preserve, and research the art treasures privately owned by temples, shrines and the Imperial Household. There are over 12,000 items in its collection, and which is divided into three broad categories: Fine Arts (sculptures, paintings, calligraphy); Handicrafts (pottery, fabrics, lacquer wares, metal works); and Archaeology (items of archaeological and historical interest). It provides an excellent overview of the different modes of artistic expression which flourished throughout the ages in Kyoto (paving the way for the rest of Japan).
The museum's main focus is on pre-modern Japanese works, and it has the largest collection anywhere of Heian Period (794-1185) artifacts and a special collection of rare and ancient Chinese and Japanese sutras. Several times per year, a special exhibition is held to grant access to the rare collection housed in the original brick museum building."
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Museo Nacional de Kioto
527 Chayachō"The Kyoto National Museum exists to house, display, preserve, and research the art treasures privately owned by temples, shrines and the Imperial Household. There are over 12,000 items in its collection, and which is divided into three broad categories: Fine Arts (sculptures, paintings, calligraphy); Handicrafts (pottery, fabrics, lacquer wares, metal works); and Archaeology (items of archaeological and historical interest). It provides an excellent overview of the different modes of artistic expression which flourished throughout the ages in Kyoto (paving the way for the rest of Japan).
The museum's main focus is on pre-modern Japanese works, and it has the largest collection anywhere of Heian Period (794-1185) artifacts and a special collection of rare and ancient Chinese and Japanese sutras. Several times per year, a special exhibition is held to grant access to the rare collection housed in the original brick museum building."
Parks & Nature
Rurikei Gorge, a natural park designated as a place of scenic beauty by MEXT, is 500 meters high and 4 kilometers long with its water source in the deep mountains. Facing Tsuten Lake upstream lie waterfalls and rocks appropriately named after each characteristic location in the Rurikei gorge, including 12 scenic spots such as "Meibaku," "Soryuen," "Gyokusoban," and so on. The gorge, which has beautiful plateau scenery in all four seasons, is also called the Karuizawa of the Kansai area and attracts many visitors.
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Rurikei Onsen
Hirotani-1-14 Sonobechō ŌkawachiRurikei Gorge, a natural park designated as a place of scenic beauty by MEXT, is 500 meters high and 4 kilometers long with its water source in the deep mountains. Facing Tsuten Lake upstream lie waterfalls and rocks appropriately named after each characteristic location in the Rurikei gorge, including 12 scenic spots such as "Meibaku," "Soryuen," "Gyokusoban," and so on. The gorge, which has beautiful plateau scenery in all four seasons, is also called the Karuizawa of the Kansai area and attracts many visitors.
Umekoji Park is a welcome patch of green in one of Kyoto’s more built up areas, about 15 minutes walk north-west of Kyoto Station. Previously the site of the JR freight railway, in the early 1990s it was converted into a city park, which opened in 1995 providing local people with a wonderful space in which to enjoy, trees, grass, flowers and clean air.
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梅小路公園前駐車場
1 SujakuuchihatachōUmekoji Park is a welcome patch of green in one of Kyoto’s more built up areas, about 15 minutes walk north-west of Kyoto Station. Previously the site of the JR freight railway, in the early 1990s it was converted into a city park, which opened in 1995 providing local people with a wonderful space in which to enjoy, trees, grass, flowers and clean air.
"Maruyama Koen lies behind Yasaka Jinja in the Gion area of south eastern Kyoto, that is about 2km north east of Kyoto Station if you are coming by subway or bus.
Maruyama Park is Kyoto's most famous cherry-blossom viewing (hanami) spot and can get particularly boisterous at night, when revelers enjoy themselves drinking beer and sake under the hundreds of cherry trees in the park in an event known as Gion-no-Yozakura.
A large shidarezakura (weeping cherry tree) stands at the center of the park and is illuminated at night. The tree is over 70 years old and is said to have been grown from a tree that was over 300 years old!
The area which is now Maruyama Koen, was once occupied by several temples that were destroyed by fire. Maruyama Koen was turned into a public park in 1871 in the early Meiji Period and formerly opened to the public in 1886.Read more: http://www.japanvisitor.com/japan-parks-gardens/maruyama-koen#ixzz46H1Dw4G6"
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Maruyama-koen Ongakudo
Maruyamacho Higashiyama Ward"Maruyama Koen lies behind Yasaka Jinja in the Gion area of south eastern Kyoto, that is about 2km north east of Kyoto Station if you are coming by subway or bus.
Maruyama Park is Kyoto's most famous cherry-blossom viewing (hanami) spot and can get particularly boisterous at night, when revelers enjoy themselves drinking beer and sake under the hundreds of cherry trees in the park in an event known as Gion-no-Yozakura.
A large shidarezakura (weeping cherry tree) stands at the center of the park and is illuminated at night. The tree is over 70 years old and is said to have been grown from a tree that was over 300 years old!
The area which is now Maruyama Koen, was once occupied by several temples that were destroyed by fire. Maruyama Koen was turned into a public park in 1871 in the early Meiji Period and formerly opened to the public in 1886.Read more: http://www.japanvisitor.com/japan-parks-gardens/maruyama-koen#ixzz46H1Dw4G6"
Essentials
This is the closest Convenience store. Seven Eleven.
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7-Eleven Kyoto-Shijo-Nishinotoindori
457 FurunishichōThis is the closest Convenience store. Seven Eleven.
Fresco Omiya
Shijōōmiyachō Shimogyo WardFresco.
Drug Hikari
470 HanakurumachōDrug Store.
Fresco Shijo
蟷螂山町-481 西洞院通四条上るThe closest supermarket. 24H open.
Entertainment & Activities
"One of Japan's leading film companies, Toei, has opened its sets to the public at Eiga Mura (Film Village aka Toei Kyoto Studio Park) and the result is a kitschy theme park complete with samurai and ninja shows, roaming geisha and rather cheesy arcades and souvenir shops. There are also various movie-related museums and a number of restaurants on site.
Until the late 1960s, Toei Eiga Mura was the location of the shooting of the great films of the ""Golden Era"" of Japanese filmmaking. Greats such as Akira Kurosawa made films here.
Other attractions at Toei Kyoto Studio Park include a Haunted House, a Ninja Mystery House with trap and revolving doors, a Ukiyo-e Woodcut Print Museum, Anime Museum and a 3-D Theater. Visitors can also dress up as a geisha, ninja or samurai warrior to wander the theme park.
Shows presented during the day by professional actors include: a Ninja Show, a Samura Sword Fighting Show, a Superhero Show, a Street Vendor Show, an Oiran Procession and a show showing an Edo Period classroom - a Terakoya Show, where visitors learn a bit of history. The Jidaigeki Show (""Period Drama"") takes you behind the scenes of shooting a typical Japanese historical drama."
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Toei Kyoto Studio Park
10 Uzumasa Higashihachiokachō"One of Japan's leading film companies, Toei, has opened its sets to the public at Eiga Mura (Film Village aka Toei Kyoto Studio Park) and the result is a kitschy theme park complete with samurai and ninja shows, roaming geisha and rather cheesy arcades and souvenir shops. There are also various movie-related museums and a number of restaurants on site.
Until the late 1960s, Toei Eiga Mura was the location of the shooting of the great films of the ""Golden Era"" of Japanese filmmaking. Greats such as Akira Kurosawa made films here.
Other attractions at Toei Kyoto Studio Park include a Haunted House, a Ninja Mystery House with trap and revolving doors, a Ukiyo-e Woodcut Print Museum, Anime Museum and a 3-D Theater. Visitors can also dress up as a geisha, ninja or samurai warrior to wander the theme park.
Shows presented during the day by professional actors include: a Ninja Show, a Samura Sword Fighting Show, a Superhero Show, a Street Vendor Show, an Oiran Procession and a show showing an Edo Period classroom - a Terakoya Show, where visitors learn a bit of history. The Jidaigeki Show (""Period Drama"") takes you behind the scenes of shooting a typical Japanese historical drama."
Getting Around
Omiya Station
Shijōōmiyachō Shimogyo WardHankyu line Omiya station.
Drinks & Nightlife
Bozu Bar
Yamadachō Nakagyo Ward"京都 坊主BAR. Address: 〒604
－8237 京都市中京区油小路通蛸薬師下る山田町526番地"
KITSUNE KYOTO
Zaimokuchō Nakagyo WardNight Club Kitsune!