The UNESCO Kiyomizudera 👘

#fallingseason #helloautumn #localescapes #timetotravel Kiyomizu-dera was founded in 778 AD and has a dramatic hillside location in Southern Higashiyama with views across the city. The large wooden main hall was built without nails and houses a statue of the eleven-faced, thousand-armed Kannon. It’s a large complex with many other buildings including an impressive entrance gate, red three-storey pagoda, quiet paths into the forest, and the bizarre Tainai-meguri where you enter into darkness to make a wish (one of the weirdest things to do in Kyoto).