Kōdai-ji Shō Art Museum

Kōdai-ji Shō Art Museum is a museum in Higashiyama, Kyoto, Kyoto. Kōdai-ji Shō Art Museum is situated nearby to Plaza, as well as near the tourism office 総合案内所.

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Type: Museum
Description: museum in Japan
Also known as: “Kōdai-ji Shō Museum”, “KOdaiji Sho Museum”, and “Shō Museum”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kōdai-ji and Kiyomizu-dera.

Kōdai-ji

Buddhist temple

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Kōdai-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the Shimogawara neighborhood of Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Kenninji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. Kōdai-ji is situated 150 metres east of Kōdai-ji Shō Art Museum.

Kiyomizu-dera

Buddhist temple

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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. Kiyomizu-dera is situated 1 km southeast of Kōdai-ji Shō Art Museum.

Entokuin

Buddhist temple

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Entokuin is a Buddhist temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shimogawara-chō and Central Kyoto.

Shimogawara-chō

Neighborhood

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Shimogawara-chō is a neighborhood.

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 2½ km southwest of Kōdai-ji Shō Art Museum.

Kōdai-ji Shō Art Museum

Categories: art museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Higashiyama, Kyoto, Kyoto, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

35.00062° or 35° 0′ 2″ north

Longitude

135.7798° or 135° 46′ 47″ east

Inception

1998

Open location code

8Q7Q2Q2H+6W

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1977407608

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q3959661

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In Other Languages

From French to Japanese—“Kōdai-ji Shō Art Museum” goes by many names.

French: “musée d’art Shō du Kōdai-ji”
French: “musée d’art Shō du temple Kōdai”
French: “musée d’art Shō”
French: “Musée d’art Shō”
Italian: “Kodaiji Sho Museum”
Italian: “Museo d’arte Shō”
Italian: “Sho Bijutsukan”
Japanese: “Kōdai-ji Shō bijutsukan”
Japanese: “こうたいじしょうびじゅつかん”
Japanese: “掌美術館”
Japanese: “高台寺掌美術館”
Japanese: “高台寺掌美術館”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include 総合案内所 and Plaza.

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