Kyoto
Worth seeing in and around Kyoto
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.
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Mountain in Kyōto, Kyōto prefefecture and Ōtsu, Shiga Prefectures, Japan
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Kyoto
- Airports
- Osaka Itami (ITM), 39 km · Kobe (UKB), 65 km · Kansai (KIX), 81 km
- Stations
- Kyōto Station, 4 km
- Osaka → Kyoto43 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · ¥550–750
- Kobe → Kyoto64 km · quickest by road, 2h · ¥830–1,130
- Tokoname → Kyoto100 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · ¥1,570–2,150
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kyoto
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kyoto. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Kyoto, the JR Kosei line goes directly to the Hieizan-Sakamoto station which is a 1,200-m walk from the Sakamoto Cable Car or the trailhead to climb Mount Hiei on foot.
- Get inFrom here the Eizan Cable Car makes the trip to the top of Mount Hiei for ¥850/1080 one-way/return (incl.
- Get inThe Hiyoshi Taisha shrine and the cable car to Mt.
- Get aroundFor going between the two, you can use the Sakamoto Cable Car, which costs ¥840/1570 one-way/round-trip and runs daily from 08:00 to 17:00 once every 30 minutes.
- Get aroundAt over 2 km, this is the longest cable car in Japan and takes about 11 minutes for the journey.
From Wikivoyage: Mount Hiei, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Next door to Kyoto
Kyoto is 11 km from Ōtsu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Otsucity of Shiga Prefecture, Japan9.2 km
- Fushimi-kuward of Kyoto9.5 km
- Mukō-shicity in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan9.5 km
- Higashiyama-kuward of Kyoto3.4 km
- Arashiyamahuman settlement in Japan8.1 km
- Gionneighborhood in Kyoto, Japan2.8 km