Kiyomizu-dera
清水寺English onlyA wooden stage on a hillside
- WhereKyoto, Kansai
- On the ground3 photos when you land
- Courses4 that pass here
- MapOpen in Google Maps ↗
From above
- The main hall sits at the edge of a steep, forested hillside.
- Narrow lanes lined with roofs climb toward it from the town to the northwest.
- A large cemetery covers the slope just to the southwest.
Your guide says
The main hall's roof juts out from the slope of the Higashiyama hills.
The stage is said to rest on 139 pillars of zelkova wood.
Fact source: Wikipedia (Japanese) · Last checked October 2026
On the ground
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