KYOTO GOSHO (Kyoto Imperial Palace) No.1

Address: Karasuma-Marutamachi, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto City
Refer-to: Kunaicho Kyoto Office
Phone: 075-211-1211
Open: You need reservation to enter in the Palace area.
Access: Imadegawa subway station. Karasuma-ichijo busstop by City bus No.51
Advice: Special Exhibition of Shishin-den is held in every spring and summer.
This had been one of the Temporary Palace and after the coronation of Emperor Kogen in 1331(Genko1, end of Kamakura Period) the Temporary Palace became the Imperial Palace.
After being razed by fire in 1788 and again in 1854, the last rebuilding of the Palace was completed in 1855(Ansei2).

Rebuilt in 1855. Shishin-den is a large wooden structure with hipped and gabled roof of cypress bark and with rased floors.
37.7m in width, 27.3m in depth, 20.5m in height.

[No.2]Shishin-den 2 [No.3]Shomei-mon, Kuruma-yose [No.4]Shodaibu-no-ma [No.5]Denjo-no-ma, East courtyard [No.6]Oikeniwa [No.7]Kogosho, Ogakumonjo [No.8]Kenrei-mon, Shunkou-den