- The Kinkakuji temple is a popular destination for tourists to take pictures. ... Kinkakuji is an impressive structure built overlooking a large pond.
- Trip.com provides tourists with Kinkakuji Temple in Kyoto is a place significant not just to Zen Buddhists, but to all those who love beauty and magnificence.
- Oh no, it had to be covered in gold – entirely! That’s how Kinkakuji was created, a private villa to a ruler who wanted to become a god.
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- Highlights and Features of Kinkakuji Temple. ... Kinkakuji Temple is easily accessible from Kyoto Station via Kyoto City Bus numbers: 101 and 205.
- When we visited Kinkakuji last autumn, we travelled by bus from Kyoto Station. The bus stop is only a short walk to the entrance of the temple’s grounds.
- The Kinkakuji we see today is a reproduction. Surviving the destruction of the Onin War (1467-1477), the original Kinkakuji burned down in 1950 by a young monk.
- "Kinkakuji Temple on Fire" by Kawabata Ryūshi (川端龍子), 1950. "Templo Kinkakuji en llamas" de Kawabata Ryūshi (川端龍子), 1950.
- If this is your first time in Kyoto, Kinkakuji is one of the staples of Kyoto tourism. It’s one of the subsidiary temples of Shokokuji, but it has far surpassed the main...
- Kinkakuji (金閣寺, Golden Pavilion) is a Zen temple in northern Kyoto whose top two floors are completely covered in gold leaf.