KYOTO

Fushimi Inari: the shrine is known for its long galleries of portals, the bright vermilion colour of its elegant architecture and the magnificent relationship of harmony with the natural environment.

The Sagano Bamboo Forest in Arashiyama, or Bamboo Grove, is locally famous and world-renowned. Visitors can stroll along paths lined with endless rows of towering bamboos.

Kinkaku-ji is a Zen temple located north of Kyoto, very famous and easily recognisable because it is covered almost entirely with real gold leaf.

Gion is known worldwide as one of the districts in Kyoto where geisha still live.

Numerous teahouses and houses where geisha live are concentrated here.

The Kiyomizudera is one of Kyoto's most famous temples. Located on the Otowa waterfall in the mountains east of the city.