Where to travel, travel and route planner » kyoto travel http://www.dankuna.com/blog Best travel, maps, GPS, weather, images, cheap hotels Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:15:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Golden Pavilion Temple, Kyoto http://www.dankuna.com/blog/golden-pavilion-temple-kyoto.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=golden-pavilion-temple-kyoto http://www.dankuna.com/blog/golden-pavilion-temple-kyoto.html#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:46:52 +0000 Ike http://www.dankuna.com/blog/?p=1700 [...]]]> Golden Pavilion Temple, Kyoto
-ji (Golden Pavilion Temple) is the informal name of Rokuon-ji (Deer Garden Temple) in Kyoto, . It was originally built in 1397 to serve as a retirement villa for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, as part of his estate then known as Kitayama. It was his son who converted the building into a Zen temple of the Rinzai school. The temple was burned down twice during the Ōnin War. The Golden Pavilion, or , is a three-story building on the grounds of the temple. The top two stories of the pavilion are covered with pure gold leaf. The pavilion functions as a shariden, housing relics of the Buddha (Buddha’s Ashes). The building is often linked or contrasted with Ginkaku-ji, the Silver Pavilion Temple, which is also located in Kyoto. The Golden Pavilion is set in a magnificent Japanese strolling garden (kaiyū-shiki). The pond in front of it is called Kyōko-chi (Mirror Pond). There are many islands and stones on the pond that represent the Buddhist creation story. guides.
GPS travel destinations: 35° 2′ 22″ N, 135° 43′ 46″ E

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The Kyoto National Museum is one of the three formerly imperially-mandated in . The museum is located in Higashiyama Ward in Kyoto. The collections of the Kyoto National on pre-modern Japanese and Asian art.

The Kyoto National Museum GPS coordinates: 34° 59′ 24″ N, 135° 46′ 22.8″ E

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