How do I get to Kameyama Park?

The nearest station is Arashiyama (Randen). Kameyama Park is in Arashiyama, Kyoto.

How much does Kameyama Park cost?

Nothing. Kameyama Park is free to visit.

Viewpoint

Kameyama Park

The view from Kameyama in Arashiyama Park up the wooded Hozu gorge and river — Photo: Domenico Convertini / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Kameyama is the hillside section of Arashiyama Park, upstream from Togetsukyo on the north bank, a slope of red pines, cherries and maples with wild azaleas underneath. Paths wind up through it to rest spots and a viewing deck.

Nearest station Arashiyama (Randen)

Cost Free

Time needed 30 min

Best time Clear days

Insider tip

Head for the west side, which looks straight up the Hozu gorge. Arashiyama has been a beauty spot since the Heian period and is best known for its spring cherries and autumn maples, so those are the seasons to come.

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What's on near Kameyama Park

Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Kameyama Park, from the weekly Kyoto events calendar.

Illumination On now ¥1,500

Arashiyama Tsukitouro Bamboo Light-up

嵐山月灯路 Arashiyama Bamboo Light-up

30 Sept to 8 Nov Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, Arashiyama

Time 18:00 to 21:00 (last entry 20:40) Station Saga-Arashiyama (JR Sagano Line), 10 min walk

Bamboo lanterns, some made by local residents in workshops, line the Bamboo Grove path and about 1 km of lit walkways. At the gate it's ¥1,500 in cash, online tickets with guaranteed entry cost ¥2,000, and children 12 and under go free.

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The walking path through the tall green stalks of the Arashiyama bamboo grove

dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0

Illumination ¥1,500

Arashiyama Tsukitouro Bamboo Light-up

嵐山月灯路

30 Sept to 8 Nov (dates to be confirmed) Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, Arashiyama

Time 18:00 to 21:00 (last entry 20:40) Station Saga-Arashiyama (JR Sagano Line), 10 min walk

The bamboo grove path is lit every evening, with a 30-metre bamboo corridor hung with 1,500 woven bamboo balls and mist drifting through the grove. In 2026 it was ¥1,500 cash at the ticket booth in the grove or ¥2,000 online, and free for 12 and under.

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Garden On now ¥700

Hogon-in Autumn Opening and Night Viewing

宝厳院秋の特別拝観・夜間特別拝観

3 Oct to 6 Dec Hogon-in, Arashiyama

Time 9:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:45), night viewing from 13 Nov 17:30 to 20:30 (last entry 20:00) Station Arashiyama (Randen), 3 min walk

This Tenryu-ji sub-temple opens its Shishiku garden, which borrows Arashiyama as a backdrop, round a lion-shaped rock under heavy maples, and for an extra ¥500 you can see Tamura Noriko's paintings in the main hall. From 13 Nov the garden is also lit at night (17:30 to 20:30, ¥1,000).

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The great mossy lion rock in the Shishiku garden of Hogon-in, with a bamboo railed path in front

663highland, CC BY 2.5

Exhibition On now ¥1,500

Shapes of Love: The Lost Shunga Scroll Chigo no Soshi

「愛のカタチ－幻の春画《稚児草紙》公開－」

19 Sept to 17 Jan Fukuda Art Museum, Arashiyama

Time 10:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:30) Station Arashiyama (Randen), 4 min walk

The museum shows the early 14th-century Chigo no Soshi scroll in public for the first time, with painted shunga by Tsukioka Settei and others, Hokusai's Nami Chidori, made in his 70s, and paintings about love by Uemura Shoen and Kaburaki Kiyokata. Nobody under 18 is admitted, and you may be asked for photo ID.

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The glass and dark steel front of the Fukuda Art Museum in Arashiyama, with its name plate on the stone wall

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Festival Starts in 6 days Free

Saigu Procession

斎宮行列

18 Oct Nonomiya Shrine to Togetsukyo Bridge, Arashiyama

Time Procession from 12:00 Station Saga-Arashiyama (JR Sagano Line), 10 min walk

A Heian-style procession re-creates an imperial princess setting out to serve at Ise Shrine, walking from Nonomiya Shrine to Togetsukyo Bridge from noon after a rite at the shrine. A purification rite at the river's north boat landing is planned for about 14:00.

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The black wooden torii of Nonomiya Shrine above stone steps, hung with a grass ring

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Nearby

Tenryu-ji Temple · 3 min walk The shogun Ashikaga Takauji founded Tenryu-ji in 1339 in memory of Emperor Go-Daigo, and it still ranks first among Kyoto's five great Zen temples. Arashiyama Bamboo Grove Park · 3 min walk This bamboo path is one of the sights Kyoto is best known for. Shigetsu Food · 3 min walk Shigetsu is Tenryu-ji's own restaurant, serving shojin ryori, the Zen vegetarian cooking made with no animal products at all, in a hall just south of... Okochi Sanso Park · 3 min walk Okochi Denjiro, a period-film star of the early Showa years, fell for the view from Mount Ogura and spent 30 years building this hillside garden at... Hogon-in Temple · 3 min walk Hogon-in is a subtemple of Tenryu-ji that only opens in spring and autumn. Nonomiya Shrine Shrine · 5 min walk Nonomiya is a small shrine on the bamboo path, on the site where imperial princesses once stayed before going to serve at the Grand Shrine of Ise,...

Around Arashiyama

Bamboo at first light, then the maple temples under Mount Ogura

Arashiyama is on Kyoto's north-western edge, where Togetsukyo Bridge crosses the Oi River with wooded hills right behind it. You'll want the bridge, Tenryu-ji and the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, and so will everyone else. Go early. Then walk north into Sagano. Its temples line the foot of Mount Ogura, and it's quieter at the far end, which Kyoto's official tourism site calls Okusaga.

Arashiyama has 30 places on the Roam Kyoto map: 14 shrines and temples, 4 landmarks, 3 parks and gardens, 2 restaurants, 2 bathhouses, 1 cafe, 1 museum, 1 viewpoint, 1 shop and 1 neighbourhood. Read the Arashiyama guide.

Arashiyama Yoshimura Food · 5 min walk
Fukuda Art Museum Museum · 6 min walk
Daihikaku Senko-ji Temple · 7 min walk
Jojakko-ji Temple · 7 min walk
Rakushisha Landmark · 8 min walk
Iwatayama Monkey Park Park · 8 min walk
Togetsukyo Bridge Landmark · 8 min walk
Kimono Forest Landmark · 8 min walk

Good to know

How do I get to Kameyama Park?: The nearest station is Arashiyama (Randen). Kameyama Park is in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
How much does Kameyama Park cost?: Nothing. Kameyama Park is free to visit.
How long do you need at Kameyama Park?: Plan for 30 min.
When is the best time to visit Kameyama Park?: Clear days.

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