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Did You Know? Often heaving with tour
groups, Ginkaku-ji’s so-called
Silver Pavilion is set within
Nanzen-ji is one of a remarkable garden with
the most important ponds, a raked gravel garden,
temples within the and pine trees.
Rinzai sect of Japanese GINKAKUJICHO START
Zen Buddhism.
EXPERIENCE Kyoto City S H I S H I G A T A N I - D OR I Shishigatani Canal Ginkaku-ji

Miroku-in

JODOJI Honen-in
A short walk uphill,
the Honen-in
Jodo-sect temple,
with its rustic,
thatched gate and
mounds of raked
sand, is well worth
a short detour.
Anraku-ji
Reigan-ji
SHISHIGATANI
Over a bridge to the
east, Otoyo-jinja is
one of a few small
Otoyo-jinja Shinto shrines
among the great
Eikan-do is a temple Buddhist founda-
complex of buildings S H I S H I G A T A N I - D O R I tions of the area.
connected by corridors.
It houses an Amida Koun-ji Shishigatani Canal
Buddha and there are
good views of Kyoto
from the pagoda.
Kumano-
Nyakuoji Shrine
Eikan-do Rebuilt after the
Onin War, most of
Nanzen-ji, dates
NANZENJI from the 17th
century, apart from a
Western-style Meiji-
period aqueduct.

Sanmon
Nanzen-ji
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