One of the most beautiful gardens we saw during our trip to Japan. The shrine is also nice, but rather typical, although it has a significant historical importance.
A Torii gate (24.2 m) is very beautiful.
A rather gaudy shrine on first impressions which seems to be everyone's checklist and every set of postcards of Kyoto. Do not miss the walk-through garden at the back, entrance via a side-gate. All in all a quite pleasing experience and well worth a visit.
This was a lovely shrine but after a whole day of shrine and temple hopping, we were a little shrine fatigued. It was beautiful and it was cool to see the gigantic Torii down the road from it, but if you can't squeeze this in, it's okay. We took a quick stroll around and were probably in and out in about 15 min.
This is well worth a visit- the wooden buildings are brightly colored and are quite different to most other shrines and temples in Kyoto. There are Japanese gardens round the back which are well worth a visit
One of the best Sakura (Cherry Blossom) Viewing Spots in Kyoto. The Shrine and the garden is located downtown Kyoto around 20 minutes walk from Yasaka Shrine. We parked our car at one place and started to walk around in Yukata around Gion, Yasaka Shrine, Kiyomizu Dera, Heian Shrine and so on for the whole day.
