Cycling Kinkakuji Ryoanji Ninnaji

自転車で金閣寺へ

This week's cycling route takes you to some of the best know temple in Kyoto.

Kinkakuji, the Golden Pavilion, is perhaps the best known temple in Kyoto, if not Japan.

From there, it is a 10-minute ride to Ryoanji Temple, the most well-known garden in Japan.

The next-to-last stop is Ninnaji Temple, also a short ride along the same winding road.

Ride, Kinkakuji, ride.

Information

Kinkakuji Temple
1 Kinkaku-ji-cho, Kita-ku, Kyoto
075 461 0013

Entrance Fee: 400 yen; last entry at 4:30 pm

Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts
26-3 Hirano, Kamiyanagi-cho, Kita-ku, Kyoto
075 463 0007

Entrance Fee: 500 yen; Closed: Mondays Year End / New Year; 9:30am - 5:00pm

Ryoanji Temple
13 Ryoanji Goryonoshita-cho, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto
075 463 2216

Entrance Fee: 500 yen; last entry at 4:30 pm

Ninnaji Temple
075 461 1155

Entrance Fee: free except for sub-temple that is a World Heritage Site (500 yen); last entry at 4 pm

Myoshinji Temple
Hanozono, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto
075 463 3121

Entrance Fee: Free (except for special exhibits at select sub-temples); open 24 hours


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Cycling the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto

自転車で金閣寺へ

Kyoto's Golden Pavilion is among the world's most beautiful buildings.

Covered in gold leaf, the main hall shimmers in front of a man-made lake.

It is ethereal and exquisite.

Kinkakuji Temple, or the Golden Pavilion, is actually a Zen Buddhist temple.

It is located in northwest Kyoto, along a well-trod path of beautiful temples. Within Japan, it has been designated as both as a National Special Historic Site and a National Special Landscape. It is moreover a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Like other temples, it was originally the a villa of an important man, in this case the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. Following his death, it became a zen temple.

The current pavilion dates to the 1950s. During the Onin War, from 1467 to 1477, it was burned twice (and the entire city of Kyoto essentially destroyed).

More recently, in 1950, an insane monk lit the temple on fire - and destroyed it.

Information

Kinkakuji Temple
1 Kinkaku-ji-cho, Kita-ku, Kyoto
075 461 0013

Entrance Fee: 400 yen; last entry at 4:30 pm

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自転車で金閣寺から妙心寺へ

自転車で金閣寺から妙心寺へ

This route takes in four of the best temples in Kyoto:

Kinkakuji Temple (Golden Pavilion), Ryoanji Temple, Ninnaji Temple, and Myoshinji Temple.

For more information, in Japanese (with a link to an English page), here is a page on cycling the area of western Kyoto that is dotted with many temples.

Ride Kinkakuji, ride.


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