Arashiyama

Worth seeing in and around Arashiyama

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Kinkaku-ji Temple

   Kinkaku-ji, officially named Rokuon-ji, is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan and a tourist attraction. It is designated as a World Heritage Site, a National Special Historic Site, a National Special Landscape, and one of the 17 Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto.

   5.9 km · Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Ritsumeikan University

   Ritsumeikan University is a private university in Kyoto, Japan, that traces its origin to 1869. In addition to its main campus in Kyoto, the university also has satellite campuses in Ibaraki, Osaka and Kusatsu, Shiga.

   5.2 km · private university in Kyoto, Japan · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Ryōan-ji Temple

   Ryōan-ji is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism.

   4.8 km · temple in Kyoto, Japan · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Ninna-ji Temple

   Ninna-ji is the head temple of the Omuro school of the Shingon Sect of Buddhism. Located in western Kyoto, Japan, it was first founded in AD 888 by Emperor Uda, and was later reconstructed in the 17th century.

   4.3 km · Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Saihō-ji Temple

   Saihō-ji is a Buddhist temple located in Matsuo, Nishikyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen, and honzon is a statue of Amida Nyorai.

   2.8 km · Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple located in Matsuo, Japan · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Kōzan-ji Temple

   Kōzan-ji, officially Toganōsan Kōsan-ji, is a Buddhist temple of the Omuro sect of Shingon Buddhism in Umegahata Toganōchō, Ukyō Ward, Kyoto, Japan. Kōzan-ji is also known as Kōsan-ji and Toganō-dera.

   5.1 km · building in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Tenryū-ji Temple

   Tenryū-ji, formally known as Tenryū Shiseizen-ji, is the head temple of the Tenryū-ji branch of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism, located in Susukinobaba-chō, Ukyō Ward, Kyoto, Japan. The temple was founded by Ashikaga Takauji in 1339, primarily to venerate Gautama Buddha, and its first chief priest was Musō Soseki.

   300 m · temple in Ukyō-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Katsura Imperial Villa

   The Katsura Imperial Villa or Katsura Detached Palace is an Imperial residence with associated gardens and outbuildings in the western suburbs of Kyoto, Japan. Located on the western bank of the Katsura River in Katsura, Nishikyō-ku, the Villa is 8km distant from the main Kyoto Imperial Palace.

   5 km · building in Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Myōshin-ji Temple

   Myōshin-ji is a temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, which serves as the head temple of the associated branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. The Myōshin-ji School is by far the largest school in Rinzai Zen, approximately as big as the other thirteen branches combined: it contains within it about 3,400 temples throughout Japan, together with a handful overseas, of the approximately six thousand total Rinzai temples, and also has nineteen associated monasteries, of the total of forty Rinzai monasteries and one nunnery.

   4.6 km · Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Mount Atago

    Mount Atago is a 924m mountain in the northwestern part of Ukyo-ku, in the city of Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The Atago Shrine is located on the top of the mountain.

    6 km · mountain in Kyoto city, Japan · Wikipedia

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Getting to Arashiyama

Airports

Osaka Itami (ITM), 33 km · Kobe (UKB), 59 km · Kansai (KIX), 76 km

Stations

Hozukyō Station, 2.9 km · Emmachi Station, 5.5 km · Hanazono Station, 4.3 km · Uzumasa Station, 2.8 km · Uzumasa Tenjingawa Station, 4.1 km

• Osaka → Arashiyama

  39 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · ¥610–830
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• Kobe → Arashiyama

  58 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · ¥810–1,110
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• Tokoname → Arashiyama

  107 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · ¥1,710–2,330
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