Kyoto World Cultural Heritage – Kozan-ji Temple

Posted on by nicklee

Kyoto is a city in Japan that has the most World Cultural Heritage sites. One of them is the Kozan-ji Temple located in the Takao area. The Kozan-ji Temple is not famous for its scenery, but for its collection of famous artifacts. Therefore, visiting here during a season without cherry blossoms or autumn leaves is relatively peaceful.

To get from the city center of Kyoto to the Takao area, please first consider how you want to travel – Takao section. After getting off, you will see some Japanese-style old house restaurants across the street.

If you want to go downhill, you can go to the opposite side to sit.

If you want to visit the World Heritage Site – Sekisui-in Hall, you can go up this way. Normally, there is no charge for entering the mountain. However, during the maple viewing season, there is an entrance fee of ￥500.

The height of the stairs is not very high, so it’s quite easy.

The area around Kozan-ji Temple is quite unique. Only the entrance to Sekisui-in Hall requires payment, while the rest does not require a ticket.

The entrance fee for Sekisui-in Hall is 600 yuan.

Actually, Sekisui-in Hall is quite small. You can probably finish exploring it in about 30 minutes.

Just come in and take a look around.

[When the sun appears, it first casts its light upon the highest mountain.] This is the origin of the name of Kozan-ji Temple. It is said that it was given by Emperor Go-Toba.

This is a collection of “Choju-jinbutsu-giga” (literally “Animal-person Caricatures”). These paintings depict animals anthropomorphized, and they are portrayed vividly… I personally think they are worth a visit.

In addition, the other three volumes are also worth reading.

Finished reading.

After leaving Sekisui-in Hall, let’s go and explore other places.

This is Founders Hall.

Buddha’s Foot Stone

Golden Hall

Because it’s not maple season, I don’t think there’s much to see here. The autumn here is more beautiful, they say.

Above is the situation of visiting Kozan-ji Temple, a World Cultural Heritage site in Kyoto.

For more Kyoto attractions, please refer to the Kansai attractions page.

Kozan-ji Temple (Official Website)

Opening Hours: 08:30~17:00
Ticket Price for Sekisui-in Hall: ¥600
Mountain Entry Fee (only during maple season): ¥500
Address: 8 Umegahata Togao-cho, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City
Transportation: Get off the JR Bus “Toganoo” and walk for about 5 minutes
Map:

『Original Source：https://nicklee.tw/1096/』

Related Posts

Visit Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden to See Monkeys Enjoying Hot Springs

Originally, I planned to go to Nagano to see monkeys soaking in hot springs.
But couldn’t get a group tour ticket from Tokyo. Instead, I got one for Hokkaido, so I decided to visit Hakodate to see the monkeys in hot springs.
I heard that the Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden also has scenes of monkeys soaking in hot springs.
It was snowing heavily that day, so the monkeys should all be in the hot spring pool, right?!

【Aomori Prefecture】Goshogawara Tachineputa no Yakata – Tachineputa Museum

The first time someone sees the name “Tachineputa” (Japanese: 立佞武多) they might have the same thought as me: What is this? Do you remember the previous article I wrote about “Nebuta” (Japanese: ねぶた)? Well, “佞武多” is simply the Chinese characters for “ねぶた”. Each region has its own unique characteristics for their “Nebuta”, and the special feature of the “Nebuta” in Goshogawara is that they are all standing figures… So each one is particularly tall. If you want to see “Tachineputa” outside of the festival period, you have to go to the “Tachineputa no Yakata” (Tachineputa Museum) to see it!