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Founded in 903, the year of Michizane's death, at the place he called his 'second hometown'; the shrine enshrines his personal effects, and in late April 170-year-old Kirishima azaleas frame the Hachijo-ike pond (constructed 1638) in spectacular crimson bloom.

A flatland castle built by Hosokawa Yoriharu in 1339; in 1578 Gracia Hosokawa (Tama) was married here, and after the Honno-ji Incident in 1582 the defeated Akechi Mitsuhide made his last stand in this castle before his death.

An ancient temple said to have been founded by Kukai in 806; its principal Eleven-faced Kannon standing statue is an Important Cultural Property, and the temple name is the very origin of the adjacent 'Shoryuji Castle'.

An ancient temple said to have been founded by Prince Shotoku on Empress Suiko's imperial decree; Kukai served as head administrator in the Konin era (810-24) and Emperor Heizei retired here, while its spring tree peonies earn it the affectionate name 'Peony Temple'.

Sacred birthplace where Honen first proclaimed exclusive nembutsu in 1175; the head temple of the Seizan Jodo sect, founded when disciple Kumagai Naozane built a hermitage here, and celebrated for its Maple Approach — praised as the finest autumn foliage in Kansai.

An ancient shrine listed in the Engishiki (927) and enshrining Prince Toneri, compiler of the Nihon Shoki; it stands amid the ruins of the Nagaokakyo palace capital (784-794), steeped in the atmosphere of antiquity.

Founded in 806 when Kukai perceived a dragon washing its eyes at a sacred spring; this mountain temple has been revered for curing eye ailments since the Heian aristocracy, and its photogenic flower water basins and autumn foliage now draw a new generation of worshippers.

An ancient temple in the western hills of Nagaokakyo revered as the "Kannon of the Eyes" with ties to Kukai — a national sanctuary for prayers to heal eye ailments

A Jodo Nishiyama Fukakusa-ha temple founded in the Koan era (1278–1288); enshrining the 'Tora Yakushi' (Tiger Medicine Buddha), a secret Buddha attributed to Kukai and presented by Emperor Gouda, and serving as the 11th station of the Kyoto Twelve Yakushi pilgrimage.

An ancient Seizan Jodo temple in the Nishiyama hills associated with Genshin (Eshin Sozu) during the Tennen era (973-976); the 'Nishiyama Daibutsu' stone Buddha (approx. 2.8 m) on the mountain path to Komyoji preserves the spirit of this ancient nembutsu retreat.