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Kyoto
A refined Zen retreat with a moss garden and a cone of raked silver sand.
Japan's most famous Zen rock garden — fifteen stones in raked gravel.
Arashiyama's top temple, with a borrowed-scenery pond garden by the mountains.
A grand Zen complex with a towering gate and a photogenic brick aqueduct.
A 120-metre hall lined with 1,001 golden statues of Kannon.
Home to Japan's tallest wooden pagoda, five storeys against the Kyoto sky.
Gion's guardian shrine, gateway to Maruyama Park's cherry blossoms.
A bright vermilion shrine fronted by a giant torii gate.
Kyoto's greatest autumn temple — a valley of maples viewed from a wooden bridge.
A tranquil garden temple with giant camphor trees and evening illuminations.
Kyoto's 400-metre covered food market, "Kyoto's Kitchen", packed with 100+ stalls of local delicacies.
A lantern-lit dining alley beside the Kamo River, one of Kyoto's most atmospheric places to eat.
A canal-side street of restaurants and bars, framed by cherry trees that bloom over the Takase waterway.
A floor of famous ramen shops from across Japan, gathered on the 10th floor of Kyoto Station.
A historic riverside sake brewery-museum in Fushimi, home of Japan's famous soft-water sake since 1637.
A Fushimi sake brewery with a garden, gallery, craft-beer hall and restaurant beside the old canals.
A century-old wagashi shop famous for mame-mochi, the soft pea-and-red-bean rice cakes Kyotoites queue for.
Summer dining on platforms suspended over a cool mountain river in Kibune, north of Kyoto.
A modern food hall and market at the base of Kyoto Tower, packed with local specialities steps from the station.
A cherry-lined canal walk through Kyoto's eastern hills, linking Ginkaku-ji and Nanzen-ji.
Japan's oldest public botanical garden, with a huge conservatory and seasonal flower displays by the Kamo River.
The vast, tree-filled park surrounding Kyoto's old Imperial Palace, free and open around the clock.
A seventeenth-century imperial villa whose strolling pond garden is considered a masterpiece of Japanese design.
A grand seventeenth-century imperial retreat in the eastern hills, famous for its sweeping borrowed-scenery garden.
