Shimogamo Shrine
Good to know
- Best time to go
- May
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
One of Kyoto's oldest Shinto shrines, set within a protected old-growth forest at the meeting of two rivers. A World Heritage site, it is the focus of one of the city's great annual festivals and remains a cool, shaded refuge in summer.
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