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KyotoShrines & TemplesMiyazu
Kono Jinja
Held to be the original shrine of Ise Jingu, and called Moto-Ise. Its Amabe genealogy is a National Treasure.
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Motoise Naiku
Said to be where the deity of Ise Jingu was enshrined before settling at its present site.
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Gion Matsuri
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. The townspeople have kept it going for over a thousand years.
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Arashiyama
The Togetsukyo bridge and the bamboo grove. A villa district of the nobility since the Heian period.
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Philosopher's Path
About 1.5 kilometres along the Lake Biwa Canal. Nishida Kitaro used to walk it.
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Aoi Matsuri
The oldest of the three great festivals of Kyoto. A procession in Heian dress moves from the palace to the shrine.
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Jidai Matsuri
A procession in costume from the Heian period through to Meiji. The festival of Heian Jingu.
KyotoContemporary ArtMiyazu
Amanohashidate
One of the three great views of Japan: 8,000 pines on a sandbar 3.6 kilometres long.
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Ine no Funaya
The ground floor is a boathouse, the upper floor a home. Two hundred and thirty of them ring the bay.
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Kurama Fire Festival
People carrying torches parade through the village. One of the three strange festivals of Kyoto.
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Sagano Romantic Train
A disused stretch of the old Sanin main line, turned into a sightseeing railway. It runs through the Hozu gorge.
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Kyoto National Museum
The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
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Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Japan's oldest surviving public art museum building, updated by digging the ground away and sliding a glass entrance beneath it.
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National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.
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Hosomi Museum
Three generations of collecting Rinpa and Jakuchu, in a building that descends underground away from the street.
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Jotenkaku Museum
Holds what Shokokuji and its sub-temples Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji kept, including Jakuchu's ink panels for the Golden Pavilion.
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Museum of Kyoto
Its annex is Tatsuno's former Bank of Japan branch, red brick banded in white stone, still on Sanjo street.
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Ryukoku Museum
Traces Buddhism's route from India to Japan, and rebuilds the lost Bezeklik cave murals at full size.