Sento Imperial Palace
Good to know
- Best time to go
- autumn
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A retirement palace built in 1630 for abdicated emperors within the grounds of the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Little of the original structures survives, but the strolling gardens with their ponds and pebble beach remain a refined example of Edo-period landscape design.
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