Kyoto · Landmarks

Best Bridge in Kyoto

9 places, each checked by our team.

• Gojo Ohashi Bridge 五条大橋Gojo — The Kamo River bridge of the Benkei and Ushiwakamaru legend, with a statue of the pair and wooden-style railings with giboshi finials.
• Gyoja-bashi Bridge 行者橋Higashiyama / Furukawa-cho — A narrow stone-slab footbridge over the Shirakawa canal in Higashiyama, crossed by Mount Hiei's marathon monks at the end of their 1,000-day practice.
• Ichijo Modoribashi Bridge 一条戻橋Horikawa / Nishijin — A small bridge over the Horikawa with a 1,200-year legend: the crossing of spirits, demons and the onmyoji Abe no Seimei, just south of Seimei Shrine.
• Kangetsukyo Bridge 観月橋Fushimi — A Fushimi bridge over the Uji River named after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's moon-viewing parties, at the old river port linking Fushimi with Uji and Osaka.
• Sanjo Ohashi Bridge 三条大橋Sanjo — The western end of the Tokaido highway from Edo, a Kamo River bridge with wooden railings and Edo-period bronze giboshi finials.
• Shichijo Ohashi Bridge 七条大橋Shichijo — The oldest bridge on the Kamo River (1913), a five-span reinforced-concrete arch in Secession style, restored with new railings and lamps.
• Shijo Ohashi Bridge 四条大橋Gion / Kawaramachi — Kyoto's busiest bridge, linking Kawaramachi and Pontocho with Gion and Yasaka Shrine, with Minamiza theatre and the Kamo River at its feet.
• Togetsukyo Bridge 渡月橋Arashiyama — The symbol of Arashiyama, a 155 m wooden-railed bridge over the Katsura river with forested mountains behind, named by an emperor who thought the…
• Uji Bridge 宇治橋Uji — One of Japan's three great ancient bridges, first built across the Uji River in 646, with its distinctive 'san-no-ma' balcony.