Private & Custom KYOTO Walking Tour - your Travel Companion

Visit Kinkakuji Temple - The Golden Pavilion - a Zen Temple which was a retirement villa of the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

Visit Kiyomizudera - Pure Water Temple - is best known for its wooden stage that just out from its main hall, 13 meters above the hill side below. The main hall which together with the stage as built without the use of nails , house the temple's primary object of worship, a small statue of the eleven faced, thousand armed Kannon. In 1944, the temple was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Sannenzaka Ninenzaka

Visit Sanneizaka and Ninenzaka preserved districts.

Yasaka Shrine

Visit Yasaka Shrine (Gion Shrine) which is well known for its summer festival (the Gion Matsuri) which is celebrated every July. Gion Matsuri is the most famous festival in the whole country.

Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine

Visit Fushimi Inari Shrine - the Ultimate Torii Gate Experience - an important Shinto shrine famous for its thousand of vermillion Torrid fates which straddle a network of trails behind its main building.

Arashiyama

Visit Arashiyama - the second most sightseeing district in Kyoto since Heian Period filled with temples, shrines and bamboo gives. 1. Bamboo Forest 2. Tenryuji Temple - Kyoto's five Zen Temples founded in 1339. UNESCO World Heritage Site. 3. Togetsu Bridge - Moon crossing bridge - built during the Heian Period reconstructed recently in 1930s

Nishiki Market Shopping District

Visit Nishiki Ichibe - a narrow, five block long shopping street lined bemire than one hundred shops and restaurants known as Kyoto's kitchen.

Gion

Visit Gion - Kyoto's famous geisha district

Ginkakuji Temple

Visit Ginkakuji - the Silver Pavilion - built by Yoshimitsu's grandson, Ashikaga Yoshima, on the other side of the City a few decades after Kinkakuji.

Sanjusangendo Temple

Sanjusangendo (三十三間堂, Sanjūsangendō) is the popular name for Rengeo-in, a temple in eastern Kyoto which is famous for its 1001 statues of Kannon, the goddess of mercy. The temple was founded in 1164 and rebuilt a century later after the original structure had been destroyed in a fire. Measuring 120 meters, the temple hall is Japan's longest wooden structure. The name Sanjusangendo (literally "33 intervals") derives from the number of intervals between the building's support columns, a traditional method of measuring the size of a building. In the center of the main hall sits a large, wooden statue of a 1000-armed Kannon (Senju Kannon) that is flanked on each side by 500 statues of human sized 1000-armed Kannon standing in ten rows. Together they make for an awesome sight.

Kyoto Imperial Palace

The Kyoto Imperial Palace (京都御所, Kyōto Gosho) used to be the residence of Japan's Imperial Family until 1868, when the emperor and capital were moved from Kyoto to Tokyo. It is located in the spacious Kyoto Imperial Park (京都御苑, Kyōto Gyoen), an attractive park in the center of the city that also encompasses the Sento Imperial Palace and a few other attractions.

Nijo Castle

Nijo Castle (二条城, Nijōjō) was built in 1603 as the Kyoto residence of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Edo Period (1603-1867). His grandson Iemitsu completed the castle's palace buildings 23 years later and further expanded the castle by adding a five story castle keep.

Eikando Zenrinji Temple

Eikando (永観堂, Eikandō), formally known as Zenrinji Temple, belongs to the Jodo sect of Japanese Buddhism. Located just north of the large temple complex of Nanzenji, Eikando is very famous for its autumn colors and the evening illuminations that take place in fall. The temple has a long history, and there are a variety of buildings and a pond garden that visitors can explore. A court noble of the Heian Period (710-1185) donated his villa to a priest, who converted it into a temple under the name Zenrinji (lit. "temple in a calm grove"). At its founding, Zenrinji was part of the Shingon sect and its first head priest was a disciple of the great Kobo Daishi, the sect's founder.