Sento Imperial Palace

Kyoto Prefecture · Japan

Sento Imperial Palace, Japan
Photo: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
autumn
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limited
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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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