Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Kyoto, Japan

Chion-in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan is the headquarters of the Jōdo-shū founded by Hōnen (1133–1212), who proclaimed that sentient beings are reborn in Amida Buddha's Western Paradise by reciting the nembutsu, Amida Buddha's name.

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Shōren-in (青蓮院) is a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan.

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Kongoji Temple is a temple of the Pure Land sect located in Gokencho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto. The main temple is Chion-in. The name of the mountain is all Kyoyama. It originated from the Amida Hall opened by Gyoki in the valley of Mt. Higashi-Iwakura during the Tenpei period. The honzon is Amitabha.

Wikipedia: 金剛寺 (京都市東山区五軒町) (JA)

Taishogun Shrine is a shrine located in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture.

Wikipedia: 大将軍神社 (京都市東山区) (JA)

The Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier, also called Kawaramachi Church, is a parish of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in the city of Kyoto, and cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyoto in Japan.

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Honnō-ji (本能寺) is a temple of the Nichiren branch of Buddhism located in Kyoto, Japan.

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Tenshoji Temple is a temple of the Pure Land sect located in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. The honzon is Amitabha.

Wikipedia: 天性寺 (京都市) (JA)

GEAR is a Japanese long-run non-verbal theatre show that originates in Kyoto and incorporates elements of technology, skilled performance arts. It is the first long-run show with original content in Japan.

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Seiganji Temple is the main temple of the Nishiyama Fukakusa sect of the Jodo sect located in Shinkyogoku-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto. The name of the mountain is Mt. Fukakusa. The honzon is Amitabha. The main hall also enshrines the eleven-sided Guanyin of the 15th of the 33 places of the New West Kingdom, the 33rd Guanyin Shrine of Luoyang, and the 2nd temple of the main temple.

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Hozoji Temple is a temple of the Nishiyama Fukakusa sect of the Jodo sect located in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto. The name of the mountain is Mt. Mugaku. The honzon is Amitabha. It is a temple related to Ito Jakubu.

Wikipedia: 宝蔵寺 (京都市) (JA)

Eifukuji Temple is a temple of the Nishiyama Fukakusa sect of the Jodo sect located in the Higashi-machi, Shinkyogoku Yakushi, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto. The name of the mountain is Joruri Mountain. The honzon is Yakushi Nyorai (Octopus Yakushi). It is commonly known as Takoyakushido or Octopus Yakushido.

Wikipedia: 永福寺 (京都市) (JA)

Narasaki Ryō was a Japanese woman and the wife of Sakamoto Ryōma, an architect of the Meiji Restoration. She is commonly called Oryō (お龍) in Japan. After the death of her first husband, she married the merchant Nishimura Matsubē and was renamed to Nishimura Tsuru .

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Nishiki Market is a marketplace in downtown Kyoto, located on the east end of Nishikikōji Street, one block north and parallel to Shijō Street and west of Teramachi Street . Rich with history and tradition, the market is renowned as the place to obtain many of Kyoto's famous foods and goods.

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Bukkō-ji , also known as the "Temple of the Buddha's Light", was originally named Kōshō-ji, a Jōdo Shinshū temple in the Yamashina ward of Kyoto, which later moved to the heart of Kyoto. The temple was founded and officially opened by a disciple named Ryōgen in 1324, but by the 15th century, Bukkō-ji was the largest and most successful temple, and its network of branch temples extending throughout the provinces of western Japan. As a rival to the Hongan-ji, it received much criticism for its evangelical practices from Kakunyo the head of the Hongan-ji. Around 1481, however, Bukkō-ji became a subordinate temple to the Hongan-ji. Many of the Bukkō-ji's congregation thus became members of the Hongan-ji, thus greatly reducing the stature.

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Mibu-dera (壬生寺) is a Buddhist temple in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto. In the Middle Ages, the temple revived a performance created by the Yuzu Nembutsu monk Engaku known as the Dai Nembutsu Kyōgen. It is also known for having been affiliated with the Shinsengumi. The temple has taken on several other names such "Jizō-in (地蔵院)", "Hōdōsanmai-in (宝幢三昧寺)", and "Shinjōkō-in (心浄光院)."

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Yagi Residence was the residence of the Yagi family in Mibu, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, and was used as a residence for the Shinsengumi at the end of the Edo period.

Wikipedia: 八木邸 (JA)

Nagijinja Shrine is a shrine located in Mibu, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. It is commonly known as "Former Gionsha".

Wikipedia: 梛神社 (JA)