Kyoto Municipal Hiyoshigaoka High School

Kyoto Municipal Hiyoshigaoka High School is a school in Higashiyama, Kyoto, Kyoto. Kyoto Municipal Hiyoshigaoka High School is situated nearby to the Buddhist temple Sada-in, as well as near the building Ryōgin-an.

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Type: School
Description: Municipal high school in Kyoto city, Japan
Also known as: “京都市立日吉ケ丘高等学校”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tōfuku-ji and Sada-in.

Tōfuku-ji

Buddhist temple

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Tōfuku-ji is a Buddhist temple in Higashiyama-ku in Kyoto, Japan. Tōfuku-ji takes its name from two temples in Nara, Tōdai-ji and Kōfuku-ji. It is one of the Kyoto Gozan or "five great Zen temples of Kyoto". Its honorary sangō prefix is Enichi-san. Tōfuku-ji is situated 200 metres southwest of Kyoto Municipal Hiyoshigaoka High School.

Sada-in

Buddhist temple

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Sada-in is a Buddhist temple.

Sennyū-ji Temple

Buddhist temple

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Sennyū-ji, formerly written as Sen-yū-ji, is a Shingon Buddhist temple and head of the Sennyū-ji sect in Higashiyama-ku in Kyoto, Japan. For centuries, Sennyū-ji has been a mausoleum for noble families and members of the Imperial House of Japan. Sennyū-ji Temple is situated 350 metres east of Kyoto Municipal Hiyoshigaoka High School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Central Kyoto and Shimogyō-ku.

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.