KYOTO. Especially, the cherry blossoms in spring and the colored leaves in autumn are highly recommended.
The colored leaves in Kyoto in autumn are just spectacular!
The high season for autumn leaves is roughly between the mid-November to the beginning of December.
The Kitano Tenmangu Shrine is a shrine built in the northwest section of Kyoto over 1000 years ago. The shrine was built during 947AD by the emperor of the time in honor of Sugawara no Michizane, a scholar and politician who represented the middle Heian period (794 AD – 1185 AD), as well as for the peace of the nation. Ever since, the imperial family, nobles, samurais and commoners alike all visit the shrine to worship.
The Kitano Tenmangu Shrine is the very first shrine in Japanese history where an actual person was enshrined as a deity.