Okazaki — Museums, Architecture, and Modern Kyoto Walk — Kyoto

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Okazaki — Museums, Architecture, and Modern Kyoto Walk

Half-day

5 stops · Half-day

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Centered on Heian Shrine's great torii, the Okazaki cultural zone gathers museums, a concert hall, a canal, and a brick aqueduct. Stepping away from temple-and-shrine Kyoto, this city-sensibility course links a renovated museum, modern architecture, and machiya cafes.

Half-day5 stopsEst. budget 30,000 KRW

Itinerary

1
Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art京都市京セラ美術館
Art museum · 70 min stay
Architect Jun Aoki modernly renovated the 1933 imperial-crown-style main building. One of Japan's oldest public art museums where the old exterior and a glass new wing coexist — the building itself is a work.
Walk 5 min
2
Heian Shrine Great Torii & Shin'en Garden平安神宮大鳥居・神苑
Shrine · Garden · 50 min stay
The 24m giant vermilion torii is Okazaki's landmark. The weeping cherries in spring of the Shin'en stroll-garden, circling the Heian-palace-modeled hall and pond, are a marvel.
신엔 봄 수양벚꽃철
Walk 12 min
3
Keage Incline蹴上インクライン
Ruins · Photo spot · 30 min stay
Remains of the inclined rails that hauled boats on the Lake Biwa canal. The composition of the disused track underfoot framed by cherry trees on both sides is one of Kyoto's prime photo and stroll spots.
벚꽃철·석양 역광
Walk 8 min
4
Nanzen-ji Aqueduct南禅寺水路閣
Nanzenji · Architecture · 30 min stay
A Meiji-era brick arch aqueduct crossing the precincts of a head Zen temple. The old temple and Roman-style aqueduct overlapping in one frame is a symbolic scene of Kyoto's modernization.
Walk 6 min
5
Blue Bottle Coffee Kyotoブルーボトルコーヒー京都
Nanzenji · Cafe · 30 min stay
The Kyoto Blue Bottle reviving a 100-year-old machiya. Hand drip in a tatami-and-veranda space facing a garden is a sensory finish to the art-and-architecture walk.