Kiyomizu-dera
Kiyomizu-dera is a Buddhist temple located in eastern Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Kita-Hosso sect of Japanese Buddhism and its honzon is a hibutsu statue of Jūichimen Kannon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: 6:00 AM—6:00 PM
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: Buddhist temple in Higashiyama, Kyoto
- Also known as: “Kiyomizu Temple” and “Kiyomizu-dera Temple”
- Wheelchair access: yes
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Photo: 애콜라이트, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Main Hall and Jishu Shrine.
Kyoto National Museum
Museum
Photo: Wiiii, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kyoto National Museum is one of the major art museums in Japan. Located in Kyoto's Higashiyama ward, the museum focuses on pre-modern Japanese and Asian art. Kyoto National Museum is situated 1¼ km southwest of Kiyomizu-dera.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shimogawara-chō and Central Kyoto.
Central Kyoto
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Central Kyoto encompasses the urban heart of Japan's former imperial capital.
Shimogyō-ku
Suburb
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Shimogyō-ku is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. First established in 1879, it has been merged and split, and took on its present boundaries in 1955, with the establishment of a separate Minami-ku. Kyoto Tower and Kyoto Station are major landmarks in Shimogyō-ku. Shimogyō-ku is situated 3 km west of Kiyomizu-dera.
Kiyomizu-dera
- Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, historic site, place of worship, religious organization, and religion
- Location: Higashiyama, Kyoto, Kyoto, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.99442° or 34° 59′ 40″ northLongitude
135.78448° or 135° 47′ 4″ eastElevation
115 metres (377 feet)Open location code
8Q6QXQVM+QQOpenStreetMap ID
way 336641107OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=religiousOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kiyomizu-dera” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Arabic: “معبد كيوميزو”
- Arabic: “معبدكيوميزو”
- Assamese: “কিয়োমিজু-ডেৰা”
- Azerbaijani: “Kiyomidzudera məbədi”
- Azerbaijani: “Kiyomizu məbədi”
- Basque: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Belarusian: “Кіёмідзу-дэра”
- Bengali: “কিয়োমিজু-কেরা”
- Breton: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Bulgarian: “Кийомидзу-дера”
- Burmese: “ခိယောမိဇုကျောင်းတော်”
- Catalan: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Cebuano: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Chinese: “清水寺”
- Chinese: “清水觀音”
- Czech: “Chrám Kijomizu-dera”
- Czech: “Kijomizu-dera”
- Danish: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Dutch: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Egyptian Arabic: “معبد كيوميزو”
- Esperanto: “Kijomizu-dera”
- Ewe: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Fijian: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Finnish: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- French: “Kiyomizu dera”
- French: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- French: “Kiyomizudera”
- French: “temple de l’eau pure”
- French: “temple Kiyomizu”
- French: “Temple Kiyomizu”
- Gan Chinese: “清水寺”
- Ganda: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Georgian: “კომიძუ-დერა”
- German: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- German: “Kiyomizudera”
- Greek: “Κιγιομίζου-ντέρα”
- Hausa: “Kiyomizu Temple”
- Hebrew: “מקדש קיומיזו”
- Hindi: “कियोमीजू-डेरा”
- Hungarian: “Kijomizudera”
- Icelandic: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Igbo: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Indonesian: “Biara Kiyomizu”
- Indonesian: “Kiyomizudera”
- Inupiaq: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Italian: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Italian: “Kiyomizudera”
- Italian: “Tempio di Kiyomizudera”
- Japanese: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Japanese: “きよみずでら”
- Japanese: “清水寺”
- Japanese: “清水観音”
- Kinyarwanda: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Korean: “기요미즈데라”
- Korean: “청수사”
- Latin: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Latvian: “Kijomidzu templis”
- Latvian: “Kijomidzu-dera”
- Latvian: “Kijomidzudera”
- Lithuanian: “Kijomizu šventykla”
- Lower Sorbian: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Malagasy: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Malay: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Malayalam: “കിയോമിസ് ദേറ”
- Maori: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Mongolian: “Киёмизү-дэра”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiyomizudera”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiyomizutempelet”
- Norwegian: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Nyanja: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Oriya: “କିୟୋମିଜୁ-ଡେରା”
- Oromo: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Pedi: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Persian: “کیومیزو-درا”
- Polish: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Portuguese: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Pushto: “کیوومیزو - دیره مندر”
- Romanian: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Romanian: “Kiyomizudera”
- Russian: “Кемидзу-дера”
- Russian: “Кёмидзу-дера”
- Russian: “Кемидзу-дэра”
- Russian: “Кёмидзу-дэра”
- Russian: “Киемидзу-дэра”
- Russian: “Киёмидзу-дэра”
- Russian: “Храм Киомицу”
- Sanskrit: “कियोमिजु मन्दिर”
- Sanskrit: “कियोमिजु मन्दिरम्”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Slovak: “Kijomizu-dera”
- Slovenian: “tempelj Kijomizu”
- Slovenian: “Tempelj Kijomizu”
- Somali: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Southern Sotho: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Spanish: “Kiyomizu dera”
- Spanish: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Spanish: “Kiyomizu”
- Spanish: “Kiyomizudera”
- Spanish: “Templo Kiyomizu”
- Swahili: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Swedish: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Swedish: “Kiyomizu-templet”
- Swedish: “Kiyomizudera”
- Swedish: “Otowasan Kiyomizudera”
- Tahitian: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Tamil: “கியோமிசு கோயில்”
- Tamil: “கியோமிசு-டேரா”
- Thai: “คิโยมิซูเดระ”
- Thai: “วัดคิโยมิซุ”
- Thai: “วัดคิโยมิสุ”
- Thai: “วัดคิโยะมิซึ”
- Thai: “วัดคิโอะมิซึ”
- Thai: “วัดน้ำใส”
- Tibetan: “ཅི་ཡུས་མུའུ་ཙུའུ་ཏེ་ལ་ལྷ་ཁང་།”
- Tigrinya: “ኪዮሚዙ-ደራ”
- Tsonga: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Turkish: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Turkish: “Kiyomizu”
- Uighur: “كىيېمىزۇ-دىرا ئىبادەتخانىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Кійомідзу-дера”
- Ukrainian: “Кійомідзу”
- Ukrainian: “Кійомідзудера”
- Ukrainian: “Кійомізу-дера”
- Ukrainian: “Монастир Кійомідзу”
- Ukrainian: “Храм чистої води”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Urdu: “کیومیزو- دیرا”
- Vietnamese: “Chùa Kiyomizu-dera”
- Vietnamese: “Chùa Kiyomizu”
- Vietnamese: “Chùa Otowasan Kiyomizu”
- Vietnamese: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Wu Chinese: “清水寺”
- Yoruba: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- Yue Chinese: “清水寺”
- Zulu: “Kiyomizu-dera”
- “Kiyomizu-dera”
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