"This month's plans" offers you some ideas to visit and feel at peace during your stay as well as enjoy seasonal events in Kyoto. They are mostly in outdoor, including some mountains, so that visitors can enjoy a green and healthy stay and save money as well!
Gion-Matsuri Festival is a festival of Yasaka Shrine located in eastern Gion, which started in the 9th century. It was originally held to drive away the evil spirits.
Fushimi-Inari Taisha Shrine, well-known as having thousands of red Shinto gates, enshrines the God for rice ha […]
Kurama-dera Temple, located at the top of sacred Mt. Kurama, holds this historical ritual every June. Two team […]
This is an ancient Japanese purification to pray for our health in the remainder of the year. It is said that […]
It is May in Kyoto and the cherry blossoms of April have scattered, making way for fresh green leaves to blank […]
Yabusame-shinji Ritual May 3rd, 13:00-15:30 @Shimogamo Shrine This is a powerful ceremony to purify the route […]
On the night of the May full moon, the festival called “Uesaku-sai” is held to pray for the happin […]
People in Imperial costumes on boats play court music, read Japanese poetry, and more at Kurumazaki-jinjya Shr […]
You can see an elegant poetry game by people dressed in traditional Heian period kimono at a beautiful garden […]
This is the event called Kakizome, the special New Year Calligraphy. Sugawara Michizane who is enshrined at Ki […]
Ohara is in the northern part of Kyoto City. But there are a lot of fields for rice and vegetables and mountai […]