Yawata

Worth seeing in and around Yawata

8 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
   Iwashimizu Hachimangū

   Iwashimizu Hachimangū is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the Twenty-Two Shrines in the Heian period ranked system of Shinto shrines, and along with the Ise Grand Shrine, one of the two royal ancestral shrines for the Imperial family.

   1.1 km · Shinto shrine in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Mount Tennōzan

   Mount Tennō, or Mount Tennōzan, is a mountain in Ōyamazaki, Kyoto, Japan. The name originates from a shrine on the mountain dedicated to Gozu Tennō, the ox-headed deity of disease and health.

   4.3 km · mountain in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Shōryūji Castle

   Shōryūji Castle is a castle in Nagaokakyō, Kyoto, Japan.

   5.3 km · building in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Minase Jingū

   Minase Shrine is a Shinto Shrine in Shimamoto, Osaka The Shrine is dedicated to the veneration of the kami of Emperor Go-Toba, Emperor Tsuchimikado and Emperor Juntoku. In the struggle with the Kamakura shogunate, the three historical figures are united by one common factor—each was overpowered and banished from the Imperial center in Kyoto: Go-Toba was banished to Oki Island, where he died.

   3.2 km · Shinto shrine in Osaka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Ōyamazaki Tile Kiln Site

   The Ōyamazaki Tile Kiln ruins is an archaeological site with the ruins of an early Heian period kiln, located in the town of Ōyamazaki, Otokuni District, Kyoto Prefecture in the Kinai region of Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2006.

   3.4 km · archaeological site in Ōyamazaki, Kyoto, Japan · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Tai-an

   Tai-an is a Momoyama period chashitsu located at Myōki-an temple in Yamazaki, Kyoto. Tai-an was designed by the great tea master Sen no Rikyū in 1582.

   3.2 km · Tea house in Kyoto, Japan · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Sakurai-no-eki

   The Sakurai-no-eki was a post station on the ancient Saigoku kaidō highway in what is now the Sakurai neighborhood of the town of Shimamoto, Osaka in the Kansai region of Japan. It is noted for its connection to the imperial loyalist Kusunoki Masashige and was designated a National Historic Site in 1921.

   3.8 km · historic site in Osaka, Japan · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Shōkadō

   The Shōka-dō is a hermitage built in the early Edo period, located in the city of Yawata, Kyoto, Japan. It was designated as a National Historic Site in 1957 under the name "Shōka-dō and its ruins" and its gardens were designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty under the name "Shōka-dō and Shoin Garden" the same year.

   1.1 km · museum in Japan · Wikipedia

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Getting to Yawata

Airports

Osaka Itami (ITM), 26 km · Kobe (UKB), 51 km · Kansai (KIX), 65 km

Stations

Hashimoto Station, 2.1 km · Kammaki Station, 3.7 km · Shimamoto Station, 3.8 km · Kuzuha Station, 2.7 km · Nagaokakyō Station, 5.9 km

• Osaka → Yawata

  27 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · ¥375–510
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• Kobe → Yawata

  51 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · ¥720–980
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• Tokoname → Yawata

  104 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · ¥1,660–2,270
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