Enjoy Kyoto, fully.

Every temple has a story. A guide to Kyoto's great temples and shrines: what you're looking at, what to notice before you walk past it, and why it has mattered for centuries.

Read them or listen to them, and take your time.

Coming to iPhone

A Sacred Kyoto guide to Kinkaku-ji, with Listen and Read side by side

Know what you're looking at.

Each one sets the scene, tells the story, then points out two or three things to notice before you leave. A few minutes each, to read or to listen to.

Ukiyo-e illustration of the vermilion torii gates at Fushimi Inari Taisha — Fushimi Inari Taisha伏見稲荷大社

Ukiyo-e illustration of the Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji — Kinkaku-ji金閣寺

Ukiyo-e illustration of the great gate at Kiyomizu-dera — Kiyomizu-dera清水寺

Ukiyo-e illustration of Tenryū-ji and the bamboo groves of Arashiyama — Tenryū-ji & Arashiyama天龍寺・嵐山

Ukiyo-e illustration of the Silver Pavilion at Ginkaku-ji — Ginkaku-ji銀閣寺

Ukiyo-e illustration of the rock garden at Ryōan-ji — Ryōan-ji龍安寺

Ukiyo-e illustration of the five-storey pagoda at Tō-ji — Tō-ji東寺

Ukiyo-e illustration of the hall of a thousand statues at Sanjūsangen-dō — Sanjūsangen-dō三十三間堂

Just you and the guides.

Download it once and the whole collection is on your phone. Every word and every minute of audio travels with you, so you can read and listen in airplane mode. The map draws its streets when you have a connection.

The app runs on your phone alone, and your data stays there: allow location and it is used on the device to show what is nearby. Guides are in English.

Coming to iPhone

Free on Google Play.