Kyoto Temples

Kyoto: temples 28 places, ranked by rating and review count.

To-ji Temple

★ 4.5(19,663) attractions

Toji (Kyoogokokuji) is a Shingon Buddhist temple founded in 796, a 15-minute walk from Kyoto Station. It holds…
Ginkaku-ji

★ 4.5(18,076) attractions

Ginkaku-ji, formally named Jisho-ji, is a Buddhist temple in Kyoto that is visited together with the Philosoph…
Nanzen-ji

★ 4.5(12,467) attractions

Nanzenji is a large Buddhist temple in Higashiyama, Kyoto, with a massive mountain gate standing at its entran…
Ryōan-ji

★ 4.5(11,294) attractions

Ryoanji is a Buddhist temple a 10-minute walk from Ryōan-ji Station in Kyoto. Its central feature is a karesan…
Kenninji Temple

★ 4.5(9,457) attractions

Kenninji is a Buddhist temple in the Gion district of Kyoto. Visitors walk through several Japanese-style gard…
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…
Ninna-ji

★ 4.4(7,857) attractions

Ninna-ji is a Buddhist temple founded in 888 and the head temple of the Omuro branch of Shingon Buddhism, loca…
Nishi Hongan-ji Temple

★ 4.4(5,873) attractions

Nishi Honganji is a large temple near Kyoto Station where visitors can see Japanese Buddhist heritage. It is a…
Daitoku-ji

★ 4.3(2,953) attractions

Daitokuji is a Buddhist temple in Kyoto. It is a place for walking quietly among Japanese-style gardens and ba…
Hōnenin Temple

★ 4.5(2,041) attractions

Honenin is a small Buddhist temple located between the Philosopher's Path and Jishoji in Kyoto. It has a moss-…
Yōkoku-ji Temple (Yanagidani Kannon)

★ 4.3(2,359) attractions

Yokokuji is a Buddhist temple in the mountains on the outskirts of Kyoto, about a 15-minute taxi ride from Nis…
Shisendo Jozan-ji

★ 4.4(1,775) attractions

Shisen-do is a Buddhist temple in Kyoto that takes almost an hour by bus from Kyoto Station. It is a small, qu…
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. …
Shōden-ji Temple

★ 4.6(464) attractions

Shodenji is a Buddhist temple in the northern outskirts of Kyoto, in Kita Ward, and it holds a karesansui gard…
Kiyomizu-dera, Sanjunoto Pagoda

★ 4.7(229) attractions

Kiyomizu-dera Sanjunoto is a red three-story wooden pagoda at the entrance to Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto. Up close…
Koeido

★ 4.5(260) attractions

Goei-do is a large Buddhist temple within walking distance of Kyoto Station and near Kyoto Tower. The Yoiden h…
Reigen-in Temple

★ 4.3(221) attractions

Enyuan is a Buddhist temple in the southeastern part of the Kennin-ji grounds in Kyoto. Its dry garden depicts…
Okunoin

★ 4.6(145) attractions

Okunoin is a Buddhist temple located deep within the grounds of Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto, directly above the Oto…
Chion-in Mieido (Founder’s Hall)

★ 4.6(135) attractions

The Miedo hall is the main hall of Chion-in, the head temple of the Jodo sect, reached through the south gate …
Sekihō-ji Temple

★ 4.1(233) attractions

Sekihoji is a Obaku Zen Buddhist temple a 10-minute walk from Fushimi Inari Taisha, where five hundred arhat s…
Dannō Hōrin-ji Temple

★ 4.1(168) attractions

Jogyang-san Zendan Oen Fumyo Horin-ji is a Jodo sect temple in Kyoto where visitors can see a black lucky cat …
Jeonbeomnyunsa

★ 4.2(129) attractions

Senpukurin-ji is a small Buddhist temple in Kyoto, reached by walking about five minutes from a side path by N…
Gwangcheongsa

★ 4.2(78) attractions

Gwangcheongsa is a temple north of the Shichihonmatsu bus stop in Marutamachi, Kyoto. In front of the main hal…
Choe Seungwon

★ 4.2(73) attractions

Choi Seungwon is a subtemple of Nanzenji, located on the mountain path east of the Nanzenji Suirokaku in Kyoto…
Kiyomizu-dera Asakurado

★ 4.5(49) attractions

Asakura-do is a Buddhist temple near the entrance of Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto, enshrining Senju Kannon. It origi…
Suseongwon

★ 4.4(45) attractions

Suiseongwon is a Buddhist temple in Myoshin-ji in Kyoto with ties to Ishida Mitsunari. Visitors with reservati…
Taesansa

★ 4.1(56) attractions

Taesansa is a Buddhist temple on the southern high ground within the Kiyomizu-dera precinct, where people pray…
Ryūganji Temple

★ 4.1(55) attractions

Yonganji is a Jodo-shu Buddhist temple in Kyoto that runs programs presenting Buddhism in contemporary forms. …