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Also of interest in the garden is the Sekkatei Teahouse, containing a stone lantern (toro), basin and seat brought from Muromachi Palace, Anmintaku Pond, which legend has never dries up and some small stone statues that visitors throw coins at for luck.

Kinkakuji is beautiful throughout the year, but particularly so after snowfall and in the autumn with the leaves turning red.

Day Tour of Kyoto Temples Second Stop : Ginkakuji Temple

After visiting Kinkakuji Temple, we will continue our day tour to the next stop, Ginkakuji Temple. While the name Ginkaku-ji literally translates as 'Silver Pavilion', this temple is not covered in silver, but features a wooden structure.

A Rinzai Zen temple in north-east Kyoto, Ginkakuji Temple is perhaps the pinnacle of the kind of Japanese aesthetic known as wabi sabi, typified by restraint, elegance and a sense of transience.

Main attractions

Best known for its stone gardens (the Sea of Silver Sand built to reflect the moon) and simple buildings, this fifteenth century temple was originally a villa for the artistic Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, a poor, inept ruler in a time of conflict and instability, but a great patron of the arts: the tea ceremony and ikebana (flower arranging).

The first storey was used as a residence, on the upper floor of the temple in the Buddhist altar room, or butsuma, is a gilded figure of Kannon (the Goddess of Mercy).