Arashiyama
Arashiyama is a district on the western outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. It also refers to the mountain across the Ōi River, which forms a backdrop to the district. Arashiyama is a nationally designated historic site and place of scenic beauty.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Tenryū-ji and Monkey Park Iwatayama.
Tenryū-ji
Buddhist temple
Tenryū-ji, formally known as Tenryū Shiseizen-ji, is the head temple of the Tenryū-ji branch of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism, located in Susukinobaba-chō, Ukyō Ward, Kyoto, Japan.
Monkey Park Iwatayama
Zoo
Photo: IMKSv, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iwatayama Monkey Park is a commercial park located in Arashiyama in Kyoto, Japan. The park is located atop Mount Arashiyama, on the opposite side of the Ōi River of the train station.
Saga-Arashiyama Station
Railway station
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
Saga-Arashiyama Station, formerly known as Saga Station, is a railway station situated in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, operating on the Sanin Main Line under the management of the West Japan Railway Company.
Arashiyama
- Type: Locality with 50,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Japan
- Categories: neighborhood and mountain
- Location: Ukyō District, Kyoto, Kyoto, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Arashiyama” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Kyoto/Arashiyama”
- Bengali: “আরশিয়ামা”
- Burmese: “အရရှိယာမ”
- Catalan: “Arashiyama”
- Cebuano: “Arashiyama”
- Chinese: “岚山”
- Chinese: “嵐山”
- Dutch: “Arashiyama”
- Esperanto: “Araŝijama”
- Finnish: “Arashiyama”
- French: “Arashiyama”
- French: “Sagano”
- Hungarian: “Arasijama”
- Indonesian: “arashiyama”
- Indonesian: “Arashiyama”
- Italian: “Arashiyama”
- Japanese: “嵐山”
- Kannada: “ಅರಾಶಿಯಾಮ”
- Korean: “아라시야마”
- Ladin: “Arashiyama”
- Malagasy: “Arashiyama”
- Marathi: “आराशियामा”
- Oriya: “ଆରାସିଆମା”
- Persian: “آراشییاما”
- Russian: “Арасияма”
- Russian: “Арашияма”
- Sanskrit: “अरशियामा”
- Spanish: “Arashiyama”
- Tagalog: “Arashiyama”
- Telugu: “అరషియామా”
- Thai: “อะระชิยะมะ”
- Thai: “อาราชิยามะ”
- Turkish: “Arashiyama”
- Uzbek: “Arashiyama”
- Vietnamese: “Arashiyama”
- Wu Chinese: “岚山（京都市）”
- Yue Chinese: “嵐山”
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