Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Kyoto, Japan

The Heian-jingu Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The Shrine is ranked as a Beppyō Jinja (別表神社) by the Association of Shinto Shrines. It is listed as an important cultural property of Japan.

Wikipedia: Heian Shrine (EN), Website

Manganji Temple is a temple of Nichiren Buddhism located in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The name of the mountain is Mt. Jigenzan.

Wikipedia: 満願寺 (京都市左京区) (JA)

Okazaki Shrine is a shrine located in Okazaki Higashi-Tenno-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto. It is also known as the "Eastern Heavenly King". Since the surrounding area was once the habitat of wild rabbits, rabbits are said to be the messengers of the gods.

Wikipedia: 岡崎神社 (JA)

Kumano Wakaoji Shrine is a shrine located in Wakaoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto. The former company name is Murasha. It used to be the shrine of Zenrinji Temple. It is located at the southern end of the philosophical path. It is commonly known as the Wakaoji Shrine. One of the three Kumano in Kyoto.

Wikipedia: 熊野若王子神社 (JA)

For other temples by similar names, see Zenrin-ji.

Wikipedia: Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji (EN)

Nanzen-ji , or Zuiryusan Nanzen-ji, formerly Zenrin-ji , is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Emperor Kameyama established it in 1291 on the site of his previous detached palace. It is also the headquarters of the Nanzen-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. The precincts of Nanzen-ji are a nationally designated Historic Site and the Hōjō gardens a Place of Scenic Beauty. The temple was destroyed in a fire in 1895 and rebuilt in 1909.

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Murin-an (無鄰菴) is a Japanese garden in Kyoto, owned by political and military leader Gensui Prince Yamagata Aritomo, designed by Ogawa Jihei and built between 1894 and 1898. It is an example of a classical Japanese promenade garden of the Meiji Period.

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The Lake Biwa Water Memorial Museum is a memorial museum located in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. Opened on August 9, 1989. It was opened by Kyoto City to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Lake Biwa Canal, a canal connecting Lake Biwa and Kyoto.

Wikipedia: 琵琶湖疏水記念館 (JA)

Hosshō-ji was a Buddhist temple in northeastern Kyoto, Japan, endowed by Emperor Shirakawa in fulfillment of a sacred vow. The temple complex was located east of the Kamo River in the Shirakawa district; and its chief architectural feature was a nine-storied octagonal pagoda.

Wikipedia: Hosshō-ji (EN)

The Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art (京都市京セラ美術館) is located in Okazaki Park in Sakyō-ku Kyoto. Formerly Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art , it is one of the oldest art museums in Japan. it opened in 1928 as Shōwa Imperial Coronation Art Museum of Kyoto, a commemoration of Emperor Hirohito's coronation.

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Okazaki Park is an urban park (general park) located in Okazaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. A park opened on the site of the 1895 National Industrial Exposition.

Wikipedia: 岡崎公園 (京都市) (JA)

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan.

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The Yūrinkan Museum (有鄰館) or Fujii Saiseikai Yūrinkan (藤井斉成会有鄰館) is a private museum of East Asian art in Kyōto, Japan. Established in 1926 by entrepreneur and politician Fujii Zensuke (1860–1934), it is the second oldest private museum in Japan, after the Ōkura Shūkokan. The collection, particularly strong in Chinese art from the Shang to the Qing, includes one National Treasure and nine Important Cultural Properties.

Wikipedia: Yūrinkan Museum (EN)

Satisfied Inari Shrine is a shrine located in Higashioji -jin, Sakyo -ku, Kyoto -shi. Known as "satisfied". The old business is a village shrine.

Wikipedia: 満足稲荷神社 (JA)

Honmyoji Temple is a temple of Nichiren Buddhism located in Higashi-iri-Kitamon-mae-cho, Niomon-dori, Higashi-oji, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Japan. The name of the mountain is Xiangguang Mountain. The former main temple is Kyoto Myokaku-ji Temple, and the Shrine of the Temple. In the precincts are the graves of Yoshida Kaneryo and Kanesada father and son, and Kaiga Tomonobu, which are called the temple of Ako Yoshishi.

Wikipedia: 本妙寺 (京都市) (JA)

Myōdenji Temple is the main temple of Nichiren Buddhism located in Kitamonzen-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Hokyo. There are five temples (Myosha-in, Enritsu-in, Ryugaku-in, Honko-in, and Tamaju-in).

Wikipedia: 妙傳寺 (京都市左京区北門前町) (JA)

Saihoji Temple is a temple of the Jodo sect located in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Gankai Mountain. The honzon is Amitabha. Kaiki (founder) is said to be the left minister of the late Heian period, Daiku-Mikado Sutra. The Bodhi temple of the Fujiwara clan and the Ōkō Mikado family, the Ayakoji family, which is one of the Uta Emperors, and the Gotsuji family. It is usually closed to the public, but it may be open to the public on special occasions such as special exhibitions of cultural properties that are not open to the public in Kyoto.

Wikipedia: 西方寺 (京都市左京区) (JA)

The Shimadzu Founding Memorial Museum is a museum located in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. Shimadzu Corporation opened it in 1975 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of its founding, in memory of its founder, Genzo Shimadzu. It consists of the South Building (built in 1888) and the North Building (built in 1894), and the building that was used as Shimadzu's residence and research institute in the early days of its founding is preserved and open to the public. Both the south and north buildings are registered tangible cultural properties of the country (registered in December 1999).

Wikipedia: 島津創業記念資料館 (JA), Website

Suminokura Ryōi was a merchant and shipper of Edo period Kyoto.

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The Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier, also called Kawaramachi Church, is a parish of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in the city of Kyoto, and cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyoto in Japan.

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Tenshoji Temple is a temple of the Pure Land sect located in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. The honzon is Amitabha.

Wikipedia: 天性寺 (京都市) (JA)

GEAR is a Japanese long-run non-verbal theatre show that originates in Kyoto and incorporates elements of technology, skilled performance arts. It is the first long-run show with original content in Japan.

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Seiganji Temple is the main temple of the Nishiyama Fukakusa sect of the Jodo sect located in Shinkyogoku-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto. The name of the mountain is Mt. Fukakusa. The honzon is Amitabha. The main hall also enshrines the eleven-sided Guanyin of the 15th of the 33 places of the New West Kingdom, the 33rd Guanyin Shrine of Luoyang, and the 2nd temple of the main temple.

Wikipedia: 誓願寺 (JA), Website

Hozoji Temple is a temple of the Nishiyama Fukakusa sect of the Jodo sect located in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto. The name of the mountain is Mt. Mugaku. The honzon is Amitabha. It is a temple related to Ito Jakubu.

Wikipedia: 宝蔵寺 (京都市) (JA)

Eifukuji Temple is a temple of the Nishiyama Fukakusa sect of the Jodo sect located in the Higashi-machi, Shinkyogoku Yakushi, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto. The name of the mountain is Joruri Mountain. The honzon is Yakushi Nyorai (Octopus Yakushi). It is commonly known as Takoyakushido or Octopus Yakushido.

Wikipedia: 永福寺 (京都市) (JA)

Narasaki Ryō was a Japanese woman and the wife of Sakamoto Ryōma, an architect of the Meiji Restoration. She is commonly called Oryō (お龍) in Japan. After the death of her first husband, she married the merchant Nishimura Matsubē and was renamed to Nishimura Tsuru .

Wikipedia: Narasaki Ryō (EN)