Kyoto 28 spots
Kyoto was Japan's capital for a thousand years, and temples and shrines still sit around every corner. When the kids run out of patience, escapes like Kyoto City Zoo — Japan's second-oldest, opened in 1903 — wait right in the sightseeing core. It suits families who want the temples without losing the children.
Areas in Kyoto
- Arashiyama3 spotsKyoto's Arashiyama runs flat along its river, with the bamboo grove and riverbank both in easy stroller reach.
- Gion & Kiyomizu1 spotKyoto's Gion and Higashiyama climb stepped stone lanes, easier with a carrier than a stroller.
- Kyoto Station Area6 spotsKyoto Station makes the simplest base, since buses and trains start here and luggage never travels far.
- Fushimi1 spotKyoto's Fushimi lines its hillside with red shrine gates, and the famous stretch starts minutes in, climb optional.
Other areas here Uji
More lists for Kyoto
All 28 spots in this prefecture
A Zen temple, properly Rokuonji, whose garden keeps its 600-year-old form.
Stroller OK · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
Built by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603, the only Japanese castle that still keeps its palace.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An apartment hotel of 96 rooms, 47 of them with a bunk bed.
Changing table · Elevator · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
Kawadoko are dining platforms built over the Kibune River from May to late September.
Stroller OK · checked Sep ’26
Nintendo Museum is a hands-on museum in Nintendo's former factory in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Kyoto shrine founded in 947 for Sugawara no Michizane, head of some 12,000 shrines across Japan.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
A Rinzai Zen head temple in Kyoto, founded in 1291 from a retired emperor's villa.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Toji: World Heritage temple founded in 796, a 15-minute walk from Kyoto Station's Hachijo exit.
Stroller OK · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Kifune Shrine is the head shrine of water deities across Japan, set along the Kibune River.
checked Oct ’26
Higashi Honganji is a Buddhist head temple, a 7-minute walk from Kyoto Station.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Per the tourist association, Ine Funaya has about 230 boathouses lining a bay in Kyoto Prefecture.
Stroller OK · checked Oct ’22
Ryoan-ji is a Zen temple in Kyoto, listed as a World Heritage site in 1994.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Oct ’26
Chion-in is the head temple of the Jodo school of Buddhism, in Kyoto's Higashiyama district.
Elevator · Family restroom · checked Jan ’22
A sightseeing train running 7.3 km along the Hozu River, 25 minutes one way.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Oct ’26
Togetsukyo is a 155-meter bridge over the Katsura River in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
Stroller OK · checked Oct ’26
Daikakuji is a Kyoto temple that was once Emperor Saga's retreat palace.
checked Oct ’26
Eikando, a Kyoto temple, is known for maples and a Buddha looking back over its shoulder.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Elevator · checked Oct ’26
Kiyomizu-dera is a Buddhist temple founded in 778, set halfway up Mount Otowa in Kyoto.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Sep ’26
A 400-meter path walled on both sides by tended bamboo, from a shrine to a villa.
Stroller OK · checked Oct ’26
A Zen temple from 1339 around a pond garden, Japan's first Special Place of Scenic Beauty.
Stroller OK · Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
A restaurant serving Kyoto home-style obanzai for about thirty years, with eighty seats.
checked Aug ’26
A shrine whose grounds take in a whole mountain, lined with about 10,000 torii gates.
Stroller OK · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
One of the few railway museums in Japan that runs a steam locomotive every day.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
An aquarium that recreates a Kyoto river and the sea, with a rice paddy indoors.
Stroller OK · Nursing room · Changing table · checked Aug ’26
Ten ramen shops from Hokkaido to Fukuoka, on the 10th floor of Kyoto Station.
Stroller OK · Elevator · checked Aug ’26
A shopping complex connected to Kyoto Station, filled with Kyoto sweet and tea shops.
Changing table · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
An apartment hotel for families, its 40-square-meter rooms fitting a kitchen and bunk beds.
Stroller OK · checked Aug ’26
A fifty-year-old hotel about two minutes from the shinkansen exit of Kyoto Station.
Elevator · Family restroom · checked Aug ’26
