[2026 year edition] local hotel Staff/staff member careful selection! 10 elections of standard Kyoto and flower viewing spot in a happy hunting ground
When I pass the middle of ordinary year March, spring comes in Kyoto, and a cherry tree flourishes. The excellent cherry tree which adds a flower to a historical shrine Buddhist temple in the ancient capital where I have spent the time 1200th vintage. Its beautiful scene attracts people and doesn't stop. By this article, from "OMO3 Kyoto Toji by Hoshino Resorts" "OMO5 Kyoto Sanjo by Hoshino Resorts" "OMO5 Kyoto Gion by Hoshino Resorts", Direction, often, famous place for beautiful cherry blossom was chosen. Please use it for an itinerary by all means.
Toji Temple area
Sanjo area
- 4Takase-gawa Kazuyuki Funiyuu (I make them burn and enters a crucian carp of side Ichi.)
- 5Kyoto Imperial garden
- 6Former detached palace Nijo Castle
Gion area
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Toji Temple area
1To-ji (To-ji)
Weeping cherry which blooms at a temple of World heritage "two cherry trees-lessness"
The World heritage and the To-ji which leave the trace in the Heian castle town soon only in Kyoto. Such as people also visited from a suburb in the festival day opened for 21 days every month "Koho city" though Kobodaishi was the temple with the high formality as a temple of established Japan's first esoteric Buddhism, you were enjoying a citizen from the old days.
About 200 cherry trees make a flower bloom a Someiyoshino cherry tree in spring, and I bustle with many tourists. A double red weeping cherry of age of the tree 130 nenchou where even the inside was transplanted from Mie in 2006 "two cherry trees-lessness (fujizakura)" is highlights. The form that I appear in a dark night as well as Five-storied pagoda can be visited by a light up of cherry blossoms by night.
[Cherry tree best time] at the beginning of April.
[The kind of trees] two cherry trees and Someiyoshino cherry tree-lessness.
[Direction from OMO3 Kyoto Toji by Hoshino Resorts] 10 minutes on foot
▼ Light up of cherry blossoms by night (Golden Hall and lecture hall night special inspection)
Time frame: Saturday, March 14, 2026-Sunday, April 12
Time :18:00-21:30 (last reception 21:00)
The night admission charge: 1000 yen and below the junior high school student of 500 yen
The night charges for parking: 1000 yen
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The cherry tree which is often used for a poster of To-ji is two cherry trees-less and said to be famous place for beautiful cherry blossom. It's popular to put national asset's Five-storied pagoda in photograph over a cherry tree.
- To-ji (To-ji)
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Kyoto center Kyoto city 1, Kujocho, Minami-ku MAP
From the Kintetsu train "To-ji" station, about 10 minutes on foot
From JRKyoto station, about 15 minutes on foot
5:00-17:00 (Golden Hall and lecture hall 8:00-16:30 reception desk end)
Free (There is part pay inspection.)
075-691-3325
Payment required (600 yen per 2 hours)
2My six grandchild king shrine (a maggot of ROKUSON, oh, then)
From Kyoto station, within the walking range. The happy hunting ground of flower viewing where I'll deify the origin of Kiyokazu Genji
In 963, foundation is learned about as company of Seiwa Genji (SEIWAGENJI) origination. Yakumo Koizumi's "ghost story" also consisted of the first general in Shogunate Government of Kamakura and Minamotono Yoritomo in a stage of a story in the shrine where I'm deifying the Emperor Seiwa's grandchild before 8 generations "Minamotono Tsunemoto (with TSUNE with everyone) was official."
When I pass the middle of March, a cherry tree in a precinct begins to color. The precinct where olive green unusual UKONZAKURA in addition to a Someiyoshino cherry tree met full bloom and was making small and orderly gradually is colored at Sakura. A spot of the good match the bridge and the outrigger "bridge of love (carp)" are called also overlooks the carp swum in a pond, and I cry.
[Cherry tree best time] at the beginning ofApril-at the middle of April.
[The kind of trees] a Someiyoshino cherry tree, UKONZAKURA and GYOIKOUZAKURA.
[Direction from OMO3 Kyoto Toji by Hoshino Resorts] 15 minutes on foot
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The shrine learned about at Sakura with Fuji and my six grandchild king shrine are the famous place for beautiful cherry blossom from which I hid. Please see a Someiyoshino cherry tree, a weeping cherry and UKONZAKURA.
- My six grandchild king shrine (a maggot of ROKUSON, oh, then)
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Kyoto center Kyoto city Minami-ku Mibu Toru Hachijo Tsuno MAP
From JR "Kyoto" station, about 13 minutes on foot
Free
075-691-0310
Payment required
Only when going and worship, the parking fee is free.
3Umekoji Park
The freight site, well! The cherry tree which colors in the park is photogenic.
They walk to west from JRKyoto station, about 15 minutes. It's about 13.7 ha of vast effective park which made use of the site of the freight railroad used extensively and opened it in 1995 from Meiji to Taisho. There are "Kyoto aquarium" and The Railway Museum of the domestic maximum level "Kyoto The Railway Museum" immediately near the park, and sightseeing can also be enjoyed. Photography with the tram to which I run through "make, porosity dream square" is recommended from April when a cherry tree meets best time.
[Cherry tree best time] at the beginning ofApril-at the middle of April.
[The kind of trees] a Someiyoshino cherry tree, UKONZAKURA and a double flowering cherry tree.
[Direction from OMO3 Kyoto Toji by Hoshino Resorts] 15 minutes on foot
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I play in entertainment Property a wide turf will go flower viewing in the park which spreads, and which is a neighborhood, and if, with whomever your family, your friend and a sweetheart visit, you can enjoy yourself!
- Umekoji Park
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Kyoto central Kyoto city 56-3, Kankijicho, Shimogyo-ku MAP
They walk from JR "Umekoji Kyoto west" station, immediately.
It's always opened.
※ Garden in Suzaku and forest of the life 9:00-17:00 (last entrance 16:30)
Open everyday
※ Garden in Suzaku and forest of the life Monday (It's absent from opening on the next day in case of a holiday.) and December 28-January 4
Free
※ Garden in Suzaku and forest of the life More than elementary students, 200 yen
075-352-2500
Payment required
Use of public transportation is recommended because vicinage has no Parking mostly.
Sanjo area
4Takase-gawa Kazuyuki Funiyuu (I make them burn and enters a crucian carp of side Ichi.)
The canal in the ancient capital a wealthy merchant built by which a petal of a cherry tree flutters down flutteringly
Takase-gawa which is the canal with about 30 cm of shallow water depth which flows through the city. Wealthy merchant's 1 person and Suminokura Ryoi who represent Kyoto (There is corner warehouse amount.) have called for 3 years from 1611 in Edo early stage (1611), throw huge private property and have completed it. "Funiyuu" is the basin for small craft which anchors for the ship which navigates Takase-gawa "flat boat" to load and unload the baggage, and the first anchoring place is called "Kazuyuki Funiyuu".
When a Someiyoshino cherry tree which equals a riverside in an anchoring place flourishes, a petal flutters down flutteringly in the surface of a river. Beauty just like Sean One of a movie is must-see.
[Cherry tree best time] at the end ofMarch-at the beginning of April.
[The kind of trees] a Someiyoshino cherry tree.
[Direction from OMO5 Kyoto Sanjo by Hoshino Resorts] 10 minutes on foot
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The "Takase-gawa Cherry Blossom Festival" which can enjoy flat boat play and a float is also held around the ordinary year and the yuan Rissei elementary school.
- Takase-gawa Kazuyuki Funiyuu (I make them burn and enters a crucian carp of side Ichi.)
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RU Ichinofunairicho under Kyoto center Kyoto city Kiyacho, Nakagyo-ku Toru Nijo MAP
From the Kyoto municipal subway Tozai Line "in front of Kyoto city office" station, about 4 minutes on foot
075-343-0548 (Kyoto overall Tourist Information Center)
5Kyoto Imperial garden
You can take a walk freely, the famous place for beautiful cherry blossom from which I hid
The "Kyoto court" where a residence was carried with a consul of the Imperial family from the time of the Heian to early years of Meiji era. The court noble formed around it and court noble's residence remains are "Kyoto Imperial garden". A tree of the plum, the peach and the cherry tree preserved importantly can be visited slowly at opened present as a place by the relaxation for the people.
About 1000 cherry trees are planted by a mountain cherry with an early weeping cherry tree at the head, and you can enjoy yourself a long period from the middle of March to the middle of May. The magnificent weeping cherry of "Konoe house mark (This, after I get it.)" in the northwest of en in particular is famous.
[Cherry tree best time] at the middle ofMarch-at the middle of May.
[The kind of trees] a Someiyoshino cherry tree, YAEBENISHIDAREZAKURA, SATOZAKURA and a mountain cherry.
[Direction from OMO5 Kyoto Sanjo by Hoshino Resorts] 15 minutes on foot
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Various kinds of cherry trees bloom by turns in 1 month, so it's also recommended to visit many times. The cherry tree pine in the Kurumagaeshi cherry tree which blooms at the place which is immediately from Hamaguri-gomon on the west side (KURUMAGAESHIZAKURA) and "place by the Gakushuin University origination" also overlooks an unusual cherry tree and cries.
- Kyoto Imperial garden
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Kyoto center Kyoto city Kamigyo-ku Kyoto Imperial garden 3 MAP
From Kyoto municipal subway Marutamachi Station, about 5 minutes on foot
Free
075-211-6348 ( (one possession) national garden society Kyoto Imperial garden)
Payment required
6Former detached palace Nijo Castle
Costarring of a castle and a salted cherry leave of Tokugawa family who has watched Japanese history
Tokugawa Ieyasu built a castle and did fee of haisan of a Shogunate Government of Edo general (in 1603) in 1603. The last general and Tokugawa Yoshinobu (stop Nobu) did the will expression of "the Restoration of the Imperial rule" which returns political power to an Imperial Court by Nijo-jo Castle Ninomaru Palace in 1867 (1867). The World heritage which is telling the origin of the Shogunate Government of Edo and the end soon as well as is preserving national asset's Ninomaru Palace, a luxurious building and pictures on partitions a lot.
A cherry tree of about 300 50 kinds in castles, early, or, even RA late bloomer is various. Wouldn't you like to be intoxicated with a feast of showy beauty in magnificent garden and Sakura? "Nijo Castle Cherry Blossom Festival" then, a light up is also held.
[Cherry tree best time] at the middle ofMarch-at the end of April.
[The kind of trees] a Someiyoshino cherry tree, Riou and a wild cherry tree.
[Direction from OMO5 Kyoto Sanjo by Hoshino Resorts] 3 minutes on foot
▼ Nijo Castle Cherry Blossom Festival 2026
Time frame: Thursday, March 19, 2026-Sunday, April 19
Time :8:45-16:00 (heishiro 17:00) and light up 18:00-21:00 (heishiro 22:00)
The charge: Light up Admission confirms the site.
Remarks: Daytime usual inspection and light up will be a replacement system.
Please check it in URL:https://www.kyoto-kankou.or.jp/event/928.
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"Nijo Castle Cherry Blossom Festival" then, a plan of cultural Experience and a projection mapping in night is filling.
- Former detached palace Nijo Castle
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Kyoto center Kyoto city Nakagyo-ku Toru Nijo Horikawa Nishiiri Nijo Shiromachi, 541. MAP
They walk from Kyoto municipal subway Nijojo-mae Station, immediately.
8:45-16:00 (heishiro 17:00)
December 29th-the 31st
Ninomaru Palace inspection suspended day: Tuesday (1 Monday . 7 Monday . 8 Monday . December) and January 1-the 3rd and December 26th-the 28th
The public of 1300 yen, junior and senior high school students of 400 yen and a schoolchild of 300 yen (Ninomaru Palace admission is included.)
075-841-0096
Payment required
Gion area
7Maruyama-koen (Yasaka-jinja)
Voice of "when I say flower viewing, Maruyama-koen". One of the famous place for beautiful cherry blossom which represents Kyoto
Maruyama-koen nominated for as the place where you can go see the cherry blossoms casually at the Kyoto city. There is a symbol in a garden "weeping cherry in Gion" in the center of the site dotted with more than one shrine Buddhist temple and Property such as Yasaka-jinja, Maruyama concert hall and Chion-in.
The present weeping cherry is root circumference 4m and height 12m. It's 2 generation eye on which the seed extracted from the first of age of the tree 200 nenchou was fed and is still a young tree. But the shape of branch overwhelms the person who has and sees the stately personality already. An annual light up of cherry blossoms by night is held at the beginning of April from the end of March every year, and it can be satisfied with beauty different from noon again.
[Cherry tree best time] at the middle ofMarch-at the end of April.
[The kind of trees] HITOESHIROHIGANSHIDAREZAKURA.
[Direction from OMO5 Kyoto Gion by Hoshino Resorts] 1 minute on foot
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The numbers of the excellent cherry tree cared for politely can be visited here and there in the park in addition to "weeping cherry in Gion" called a common name "cherry blossoms by night in Gion". Please enjoy flower viewing according to the Japanese-style restaurant and the restaurant.
- Maruyama-koen (Yasaka-jinja)
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Kyoto center Kyoto city Maruyamacho, Higashiyama-ku MAP
衹From Keihan Electric Railway garden Shijo Station, about 10 minutes on foot
Free
075-561-1350 (Kyoto city urban afforestation society)
Payment required
8Tatsumihashi (I stand up, when seeing, it's done.)
A cherry tree shines by the cityscape which seems to be Kyoto like 1 picture postcard.
The place where Gion Shirakawa who has been also often used for a location place of a play and a movie feels the taste which seems to be Kyoto for Yanagi who rustles at the way of a house in the midst of the busy town and a stone pavement and an edge in Shirakawa of a red ocher grid. The cherry tree which adds gorgeousness to Tatsumihashi who has Shirakawa bustles with the tourist who takes a picture at a superb view in spring in particular.
There is Tatsumi great gracious god which has collected belief from the people in Gion who make the accomplishment important immediately near the small bridge. When it's timely, it may be possible to lay eyes on the form of Mr. Japanese dancing girl together with a hand and Mr. geisha in company.
[Cherry tree best time] at the middle ofMarch-at the end of April.
[The kind of trees] a Someiyoshino cherry tree and a weeping cherry tree.
[Direction from OMO5 Kyoto Gion by Hoshino Resorts] 5 minutes on foot
▼ The 33rd time 衹garden Shirakawa evening cherry tree light up
Time frame: Friday, March 27, 2026-Sunday, April 5
Time :18:00-22:00
衹Around place :Kyoto city Higashiyama-ku Sono Shinbashi
Shirakawa Minami Dori (a riverside street-Tatsumi great gracious god /220m)
Remarks:https://ja.kyoto.travel/event/single.php? event_id=4544
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"衹Garden Shirakawa evening cherry tree light up" can also enjoy cherry blossoms by night at Gion Shirakawa where the streets which seem to be the way of a stone pavement and Gion where a house in the midst of the busy town ranges spread, and is held for about 1 week.
- Tatsumihashi (Gion Shirakawa)
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Kyoto center Kyoto city Higashiyama-ku Gion MAP
From Keihan Electric Railway Gion-shijo Station, about 7 minutes on foot
9Washimineyama Kodai-ji
Weeping cherry in a Hojo garden which blooms at a temple in NENE with Hideyoshi
The temple which was built for a cat and hill in to condole with Toyotomi Hideyoshi's lawful wife and Kita no Mandokoro on Hideyoshi in 1606 (1606). "Kodaiji Temple garden" in a precinct (historic site place of scenic beauty) is dotted with a tea-ceremony room in addition to the mausoleum of Hideyoshi and NENE which was decorated with the luxurious lacquer work called "Kodai-ji lacquer work (They could wind.)" "memorial altar".
Many tourists visit in order to glimpse a weeping cherry in a wave heart garden (for, pith Tei) a season of a cherry tree. Annual "night special inspection in" spring is also held every year. Cherry blossoms by night can be enjoyed by the fantastic atmosphere different from the daytime.
[Cherry tree best time] at the middle ofMarch-at the end of April.
[The kind of trees] weeping cherry tree
[Direction from OMO5 Kyoto Gion by Hoshino Resorts] 8 minutes on foot
▼ Night special inspection in spring
Time frame: Friday, March 13, 2026-Wednesday, May 6
Time :17:00-22:00 (last reception 21:30)
An admission charge: An adult of 800 yen and junior and senior high school students of 400 yen
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It's recommended to see the sights of Kodai-ji while taking a walk through the way to NENE. The big weeping cherry which pauses in the wave heart garden which spreads in white is famous.
- Washimineyama Kodai-ji
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Kyoto center Kyoto city Higashiyama-ku Kodai-ji 526, Shimokawaracho MAP
From Keihan Electric Railway Gion-shijo Station, about 10 minutes on foot
9:00-17:30 (last reception 17:00)
Even 600 yen for an adult of 5 people of accompanying is free about 1 adult guardian below the junior and senior high school students 250 yen※ elementary students (The inspection only below the elementary students is bad.)
075-561-9966
Payment required
10Kiyomizu-dera Temple
Pretty view in solemn stage in a spring and Sakura
The obvious world heritage of Kyoto and Kiyomizu-dera are also famous as famous place for beautiful cherry blossom nationwide. The one the temple opened about 1200 years ago now could build in the Otowayama side of Higashiyama District. A valuable historical legacy of more than 30 including national treasure and important cultural property is preserved importantly.
When spring comes, a cherry tree as much as about 1500 blooms beautifully so that "big stage" in a main hall which projects from a cliff may be circled. Its state, from Okuno-in, I look, against the background of the tower where OK is threefold, a cherry tree, I love, OK. From wherever it's seen, it's the famous temple which makes a picture.
"Night special inspection in spring" is performed this time, and the beautiful cherry blossoms by night lit up can also be enjoyed.
[Cherry tree best time] at the middle ofMarch-at the end of April.
[The kind of trees] a Someiyoshino cherry tree and a mountain cherry.
[Direction from OMO5 Kyoto Gion by Hoshino Resorts] 16 minutes on foot
▼ Night special inspection in spring
Time frame: Friday, March 27, 2026-Sunday, April 5
Time :18:00-21:00 (the last reception)
An admission charge: Adult of 500 yen, small size and 200 yen for a junior high school student
URL:https://www.kiyomizudera.or.jp/event/yakan.php
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Collaboration in a big stage and Sakura which involve a proverb "I jump off from a stage in a spring." since the way shows us its form more beautifully by a light up.
- Kiyomizu-dera Temple
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Kyoto center Kyoto city Kiyomizu, Higashiyama-ku 1-chome 294 MAP
From JRKyoto station, embussment and "Gojozaka" getting off for about 10 minutes on foot
6:00-18:00 ※ gate closing time is different depending on a year and time.
Adult of 500 yen, small size and 200 yen for a junior high school student
075-551-1234
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