Best Gardens In Kyoto-shi
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Sanzen-in Temple is located at Kyoto Ohara where has the beautiful nature in each season. Its garden is covered with moss and you can leave the daily life in front of the beautiful and comfortable scenery. A lovely Warabe Jizo (a stone image with child face) makes us feel at ease.
Name
Kyoto Ohara Sanzen-in Temple
Address
540 Ohara Koin-cho Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-744-2531
Hours
8:30-17:00
How to get there
By bus, 60 min from Kyoto Station to 'Ohara Bus Stop', then 10 min walk. By car, 20 min from Mano IC. There's no parking area, you can use toll parking lot nearby.
Parking
Nearby toll parking area is available
Enko-ji Temple was a school for development of education by Ieyasu Tokugawa. A wonderful Japanese garden covered with moss, 'Jyu-gyu no niwa' is like a picture by the temple pillars on all sides. The rich nature gives us a moment of relief.
Name
Enko-ji Temple
Address
13 Kotani-cho Ichijo-ji Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Fee
Adult 500 yen、Child 300 yen
How to get there
35 min by bus from Kyoto Station to Ichijoji Sagari Matsu-cho, then 10 min walk. 15 min walk from Ichijoji Station. By car, 30 min from Kyoto Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
At South Garden (a path-around-pond style garden: people see the garden from the paths around the pond in the central of the garden) of Tenju-an in Nanzen-ji Temple, you can see the beautiful reflections of fresh greens on the pond. What's more, such as East Garden of beautiful white sands and moss, there're many things to see.
Name
Nanzen-ji Temple
Address
Nanzenji Fukuchi-cho Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
How to get there
10 min walk from Keage Station. 25 min by bus from Kyoto Station to Nanzenji Eikando, then 10 min walk.
A famous place for maple leaves viewing, Ruriko-in Temple has terms of special visiting for a few months in spring and autumn. You can see the beautiful green leaves in spring, and colorful ones in autumn. The reflections on the floor and desk is so wonderful!◎The special visiting of autumn in 2017 is 10/1~12/10 Entrance fee: 2000yen
Name
Ruriko-in Temple
Address
55 Higashiyama Kamitakano Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-781-4001
Fee
Adult 2000 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
5 min walk from Yase Hieizan-guchi Station, 5 min walk from Yase Station. By bus, 50 min from Kyoto Station to Yase Station, then 7 min walk.
Parking
Nearby toll parking area is available
In the cool air of the early morning in late autumn. Can you find the beauty of the natural garden and how you should be? It's not bad to look for something 'lovely', but let's stretch your back at a simple place once in a while.◎A famous picture of Daruma and a ceiling picture of Dragon are also interesting. Visiting in early morning, you can see them without congestion.
Name
Tenryu Temple
Address
68 Sagatenryu-ji Susukinobaba-cho Ukyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-881-1235
Hours
8:30-17:30
How to get there
Rokuou-in Temple's stone paved approach is like an autumn colored red tunnel. We can walk along the approach slowly, and enjoy autumn of Kyoto. Going through the pass, there's a garden where the tranquil time glides by. Please try to look up sometimes.
Name
Rokuo-in Temple
Address
24 Saga Kitabori-cho Ukyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-861-1645
Hours
9:00-17:00
How to get there
5 min walk from JR Saga Arashiyama Station. 3 min walk from Araden Rokuouin Station. By bus, 40 min from Kyoto Station to Shimo Saga, then 3 min walk. By car or taxi, 30 min from Kyoto Station.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Although a casual outside appearance that we don't recognize and go past, it has a wonderful tea room in the depth. You can have a quiet and slow time with delicious tea & sweets. They open in the morning, but only a few people know it!◎They hold some events and workshops rather than tea, you can feel free to join them. This old house is preserved and used with least renovation, so it's a rare one among the houses in Kyoto city.
Name
the Terminal KYOTO
Address
424 Iwatoyama-cho Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-344-2544
Hours
9:00-18:00
How to get there
As for Toji Temple, the scenes of spring and autumn are famous, but I like this early summer scenery with fresh greens. You can enjoy seeing the beautiful garden in this season more leisurely than the peak season, for there're fewer people. What's more, you can see the sunset with fresh greens just before the closing time.
Name
Toji Temple
Address
1 Kujyo-cho Minami-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-691-3325
Hours
5:00-17:00
How to get there
15 min walk from Kyoto Station, or 10 min walk from Toji Station. By bus, 10 min from Kyoto Station to Toji-mae.
Parking
Parking area is available
As a traditional Japanese house representative of the early Showa Period, it was designated as a national tangible cultural asset in 2016. And it has opened to public since this summer. I could be refreshed for the tea, sweets and wonderful green reflections even the weather was hot.◎It'll be opened till the end of September, and closed 8/14-8/16.
Name
Omuro Traditional House
Address
5 Omuro Okanosuso-cho Ukyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
How to get there
2 min walk from Omuro-Nin'naji Station. 25 min by car or taxi from Kyoto Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
Different from Kanauji Temple, Ginkakuji has understated but powerful atmosphere. Ginsyadan is sketched the surf scenery, the sand hill is called Mukougetu-dai. They make me feel the aesthetic sense of Higashiyama Culture(around 1483).
Name
Ginkakuji Temple
Address
2 Ginkakuji-cho Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-771-5725
Hours
8:30-17:00,9:00-16:30
How to get there
Parking
Nearby toll parking area is available
Built in Kamakura Period (1202), Kennin-ji Temple has a holding screen printing of Wind God and Thunder God Screens, and Painting of Two Dragons, and Karesansui Garden called Cho'on Tei. If you're lucky, you may see the screen painting over this papered sliding door.
Name
Kennin-ji Temple
Address
Komatsu-cho Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-561-6363
Hours
10:00-16:30
Fee
Adult 500 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
7 min walk from Keihan Gion Shijo Station, 10 min from Hankyu Kawaramachi Station. By bus, 13 min from Kyoto Station to Higashiyama Yasui, then 7 min walk. By car or taxi, 10 min from Kyoto Station.
Parking
Toll parking area is available
Giouji Temple is located a little walk ahead from Arashiyama. The beautiful moss is specially fascinating, and it changes the color in each season. In early summer, the moss green becomes most beautiful and vivid.
Name
Giouji Temple
Address
32 Sagatoriimotokozaka-cho, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-861-3574
Hours
9:00-17:00
Fee
Adult 300 yen、Child 100 yen
How to get there
20 min walk from Arashiyama Station. By bus, 50 min from Shijokawaramachi to Saga Elementary School, then 17 min walk. By car, 35 min from Kyoto Minami (South) IC, and parking area is available.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Although Eikando could be very crowded with many tourists in the season of autumn leaves, you can see around calmly now in the fresh greens for there're fewer visitors. In the precinct of Eikando, you must see the beautifully curved Garyu-ro (Hallway Of Lying Dragon: named after its ceiling which is similar to a dragon's back).
Name
Eikando Zenrin-ji
Address
48 Eikando-cho Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-761-0007
Hours
9:00-17:00
How to get there
15 min walk from Keage Station. By bus, 25 min from Kyoto Station or 10 min from Sanjo-keihan Station to Nanzanji Eikando. Free parking area is available.
Parking
No parking area
Although we are permitted to visit here throughout a year, it's a symbol of Kyoto, and after I go through the strict security guard, I feel like to straighten my spine against the overwhelming dignity and scale. It's the ultimate of house visiting.◎Access: 5min walk from a subway Imadegawa Open: 9:00-depends on seasons Entrance Fee: free without reservations 60min for an optional guide Toll parking available
Matsuo Taisha, where about 3000 trees of Japanese rose (yamabuki) blooms, is popular as the best place in Kansai region. Vivid gold flowers looks beautiful with fresh greens and blue sky, and have fascinating smells. You can enjoy some different kinds of petal type, and also the white Japanese rose at a pay garden.◎Yamabuki Festival 4/10-5/5, 5:00-18:00. During this event, they entertain the visitors with amazake for free.
Name
Matsunoo Taisha Shrine
Address
3 Arashiyama Miya-machi Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
Tel
075-871-5016
Hours
9:00-16:00 [Sun・Holidays]9:00-16:30
How to get there
During the period of opening to the public, anyone can enter for free. But it's a little known, so you can view the cherry blossoms leisurely. The well kept garden is refreshing, and lighten up weeping cherry blossom trees are worth seeing!◎A religious facility of Sekai Kyusai Kyo. It's open to public in the season of cherry blossom, fresh greens and fall foliage. You can enter for free and receive a treat of green tea. They notice the open date in HP.
Name
Heiankyo
Address
24-1 Saga Hirosawaike Shita-cho Ukyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, KyotoGoogle Map
How to get there