Kiyomizu-dera Travel Guide

Kyoto near Kiyomizu-dera: places to visit 41 places, ranked by rating and review count.

The Kiyomizu-dera Area is a historic district in Kyoto, centered on the temple grounds and the surrounding slopes of Higashiyama. This list covers 45 restaurants, 39 cafes, and 35 attractions, including Sannenzaka, Ninenzaka, and Kōdaiji Temple. The area also includes hotels and a smaller number of bars and shopping spots, with GYUKATSU Kyoto Katsugyu Kiyomizu Gojozaka and Starbucks Coffee - Kyoto Nineizaka Yasaka Chaya among the dining and cafe options.

  1. Kiyomizu-dera

    ★ 4.6(72,845) attractions

    Kiyomizudera is a Buddhist temple at the end of Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka in Kyoto, registered as a Japanese na…

  2. GYUKATSU Kyoto Katsugyu Kiyomizu Gojozaka

    ★ 4.8(13,824) restaurants

    Gyukatsu Kyoto Katsugyu Kiyomizu Gojozaka is a Japanese restaurant in Kyoto that serves gyukatsu, near Kiyomiz…

  3. Sannenzaka

    ★ 4.4(17,038) attractions

    Sannenzaka is a traditional street that continues down from Kiyomizu-dera, lined with traditional houses, tea …

  4. Ninenzaka

    ★ 4.5(11,881) attractions

    Ninenzaka is a tourist spot in Kyoto lined with traditional buildings and shops, running from Gion to Kiyomizu…

  5. Kōdaiji Temple

    ★ 4.4(10,018) attractions

    Kodaiji is a temple near Ninenzaka and Nene no Michi in Kyoto, where visitors see a garden and a bamboo grove …

  6. Hōkan-ji Temple (Yasaka Pagoda)

    ★ 4.6(5,859) attractions

    Hokanji is a Buddhist temple located between Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka in Kyoto. It has a five-story wooden pag…

  7. Starbucks Coffee - Kyoto Nineizaka Yasaka Chaya

    ★ 4.4(6,413) cafes

    Starbucks Ninenzaka Yasaka Chaya is a coffee shop on the Ninenzaka alley in Kyoto that sells coffee and matcha…

  8. Kyoto Charcoal Eel Suisen Gion Yasaka

    ★ 4.8(2,549) restaurants

    Kyoto Charcoal Eel Suisen Gion Yasaka is a Japanese restaurant in Gion Yasaka, Kyoto, serving charcoal-grilled…

  9. % ARABICA Kyoto Higashiyama

    ★ 4.4(3,022) cafes

    Arabica Kyoto Higashiyama is a coffee cafe in Higashiyama, on the route to Kiyomizudera. It serves its signatu…

  10. Tempura Endo Yasaka (North)

    ★ 4.5(1,962) restaurants

    Endo Yasaka Honten Kitatei is a tempura course restaurant in Gion Yasaka, Kyoto, operating for over 100 years.…

  11. THE SODOH HIGASHIYAMA KYOTO

    ★ 4.3(2,055) shopping

    The Sodoh Higashiyama Kyoto is a restaurant in Kyoto. It serves a kaiseki course, and ingredients you cannot e…

  12. Kawai Kanjiro's House

    ★ 4.7(873) attractions

    The Kawai Kanjiro Memorial Museum in Kyoto opens the house and workshop where the potter Kawai Kanjiro lived a…

  13. Ichikawaya Coffee

    ★ 4.5(1,123) cafes

    Ichikawa Coffee is a cafe in Higashiyama, Kyoto, serving coffee and sandwiches near Kugemuka, Fumikokushinja, …

  14. Kiyomizu-dera Hondo (Main Hall)

    ★ 4.6(921) attractions

    Kiyomizu-dera Honden is a Buddhist temple main hall in Kyoto, visited together with Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka. …

  15. GOKAGO

    ★ 4.5(940) cafes

    GOKAGO is a matcha cafe on the main street near Kiyomizudera in Kyoto, serving matcha latte and matcha ice cre…

  16. Park Hyatt Kyoto

    ★ 4.6(715) hotels

    Park Hyatt Kyoto is a hotel with guest rooms and dining in the Ninenzaka area. It offers a Yasaka teppanyaki c…

  17. Otowa Saryo

    ★ 4.6(622) restaurants

    Otowasairo is a Japanese restaurant near Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto. It serves unagi donburi, soba, and udon sets,…

  18. The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu

    ★ 4.6(590) hotels

    The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu is a lodging hotel in Kyoto converted from an old elementary school, near the …

  19. Chikurin

    ★ 4.4(781) attractions

    Chikurin is a garden in Arashiyama, Kyoto, where visitors walk through a bamboo grove. Because there are many …

  20. Okabeya

    ★ 3.9(1,343) restaurants

    Kiyomizu Junsei Okabeya is a tofu restaurant near Kiyomizu-dera that serves yuba and tofu set meals. The yuba …

  21. loose kyoto

    ★ 4.3(644) cafes

    Loose Kyoto is a doughnut and specialty coffee cafe located between Kiyomizu-dera and Ninenzaka and Sannenzaka…

  22. Kyoto Ryokan Gion Sano

    ★ 4.8(305) hotels

    Kyoto Ryokan Gion Sano is a traditional ryokan in Gion, Kyoto, a five-minute walk from the south gate of Yasak…

  23. Fujinami

    ★ 4.4(517) cafes

    Fujinami is a dango shop in Sannen-zaka, Kyoto. It grills warm mitarashi dango to order and serves it with inj…

  24. Donguri Kyowakoku (Ghibli Store)

    ★ 4.5(447) shopping

    Dotori Gonghwaguk Ninenzaka is a small shop in Ninenzaka, Kyoto, selling Studio Ghibli character merchandise. …

  25. The Unir Coffee Senses

    ★ 4.5(435) cafes

    The Unir Coffee Senses is a wooden house cafe on the Sannenzaka alley in Kyoto, serving coffee, matcha drinks,…

  26. Koyasu-no-to Pagoda

    ★ 4.5(418) attractions

    Cheongsu-sa Jaan-tap is a wooden pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto, reached by following the path to the right …

  27. Gion Ryokan Karaku

    ★ 4.1(545) hotels

    Gion Ryokan Karaku is a traditional ryokan in Gion. Breakfast includes grilled fish, soup, and Japanese-style …

  28. Shichimiya Honpo

    ★ 4.3(336) shopping

    Shichimiya Honten is a seasoning souvenir shop selling shichimi, ichimi, and sansho and dashi powders, located…

  29. HARIO CAFE Kyoto Store

    ★ 4.2(354) cafes

    HARIO CAFE Kyoto Store is a cafe in the Ishibeikoji alley of Gion, Kyoto, serving Hario siphon and drip coffee…

  30. Kiyoshi

    ★ 4.5(230) restaurants

    Kiyoshi Yosei is a small Japanese restaurant near Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto that serves udon, soba, and rice bowl…

  31. Kyoto Chano-yu Akebonotei

    ★ 4.7(178) cafes

    Chano-yu is a cafe in Kyoto that serves matcha lattes, matcha ice cream, and matcha parfaits on the route to K…

  32. Kokodosu

    ★ 4.5(205) restaurants

    Kokodos is a Japanese restaurant on the road up to Kiyomizudera that serves udon and soba. Its representative …

  33. Kyo-Baum Kiyomizu Store

    ★ 4.1(336) cafes

    Kyo-Baum Kiyomizu Store is a dessert shop on the road up to Kiyomizu-dera that sells matcha baumkuchen and ice…

  34. Fujinami Kodai-ji Temple Store

    ★ 4.4(215) cafes

    Fujinami Shimizu Kodaiji is a Japanese dessert shop in Higashiyama, Kyoto. Mitarashi dango is grilled to order…

  35. 伊藤久右衛門 清水産寧坂店

    ★ 4.5(139) cafes

    Itto Qemon Kiyomizu Sannenzaka is a matcha cafe in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward, in Kiyomizu 3 Chome. It is a plac…

  36. Kyomachiya-Suite Rikyu

    ★ 5.0(75) hotels

    Kyomachiya Suite Rikyu in Gion is a ryokan converted from a 70-year-old Japanese wooden house. It has a tatami…

  37. Kodaiji Park

    ★ 4.3(133) attractions

    Kodai-ji Park is a small park at the entrance of Nene-no-Michi in Kyoto, near Kodai-ji. In cherry blossom seas…

  38. Itoh Kyuemon - Kiyomizu-zaka

    ★ 4.5(65) cafes

    Itoh Kyuemon - Kiyomizu-zaka is a matcha shop in Sannenzaka, in the Kiyomizudera area. It sells matcha ice cre…

  39. Japanese Noodle ISSUN BOUSHI

    ★ 4.7 restaurants

    Itsunbosi is a ramen shop near Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto that serves basic ramen along with salt and soy sauce ra…

  40. Saka

    restaurants

    Shuta Soba Chejaka is a soba restaurant in Kyoto, one block off the main shopping street of Sannenzaka below K…

  41. Shokudo Endo

    restaurants

    Endo is a seafood donburi restaurant in a side alley near Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka, on the route up to Kiyomiz…

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