Things to do in Kyoto with kids 9 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.
A shrine whose grounds take in a whole mountain, lined with about 10,000 torii gates.
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A temple founded in 778, its grounds holding more than thirty halls and pagodas.
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A 400-meter path walled on both sides by tended bamboo, from a shrine to a villa.
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A Zen temple, properly Rokuonji, whose garden keeps its 600-year-old form.
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Built by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603, the only Japanese castle that still keeps its palace.
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One of the few railway museums in Japan that runs a steam locomotive every day.
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An aquarium that recreates a Kyoto river and the sea, with a rice paddy indoors.
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A Zen temple from 1339 around a pond garden, Japan's first Special Place of Scenic Beauty.
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Kiyomizu-dera is a Buddhist temple founded in 778, set halfway up Mount Otowa in Kyoto.
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