Tenryu-ji Temple is one of the five great Zen temples in Kyoto and a UNESCO World Heritage site. It was built in 1339 by Ashikaga Takauji, who dedicated it to Emperor Go-Daigo in an attempt to appease his spirits. Famous garden designer Muso Soseki created the beautiful landscape garden featuring a central pond surrounded by rocks, pine trees, and the Arashiyama mountains. Tenryu-ji's buildings have been repeatedly lost to fires, but its garden has lasted the centuries in its original form.
The garden and the Temple can only be experienced separately (you cannot enter the Garden through the Temple's Halls and vice versa).
The garden has two entrances
Tenryu-ji Temple entrance
*500 JPY must be paid to enter the Garden
*300 JPY must be paid to enter the halls of Tenryu-ji Temple
