Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street
Arashiyama, Kyoto
- Tue to Sun
- 10:00 to 16:00
- Mon
- Closed
These are the hours of the free preservation centre on the street. When Monday is a public holiday it closes on Tuesday instead, and it's closed from 26 December to 6 January.
Source: city.kyoto.lg.jp, checked 11 Oct 2026.
Saga-Toriimoto grew up as both the gateway town for pilgrims heading to Atago Shrine and a farming village, and the road still shows both. Townhouses with mushiko windows stand next to thatched farmhouses as it climbs from Adashino Nenbutsu-ji to Atago's first torii.
Insider tip
Look in at the free preservation centre near the torii, an early Meiji townhouse with a model of the street as it looked in the early Showa years. It's closed on Mondays. Kyoto Bus stops at Toriimoto, 3 minutes away, or it's about 30 minutes on foot from Togetsukyo by way of Rakushisha.
What's on near Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street
Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street, from the weekly Kyoto events calendar.
Sento Kuyo Candle Service at Adashino Nenbutsu-ji
千灯供養（化野念仏寺）
Time 17:30 to 21:00 (last entry 20:30), sutras from 18:00 Station Saga-Arashiyama (JR Sagano Line)
On the last weekend of August, candles are lit at dusk among the temple's stone Buddhas and stupas, which local people gathered from the old Adashino burial ground in the Meiji era, for the souls nobody remembers. Sutras start at 18:00, and lanterns line the old Atago road outside on the same evenings.
Zairon, CC BY 4.0 Saga Otaimatsu Fire Festival at Seiryo-ji
涅槃会とお松明式（清凉寺）
Time Kyogen from 15:30, torches about 20:00 Station Saga-Shakado-mae bus stop (City Bus 28), 2 min walk
Three giant torches are lit in front of the main hall around 20:00 to recall the Buddha's cremation. Before that, from 15:30, you can watch Saga Dainembutsu Kyogen, one of Kyoto's three nembutsu kyogen, masked plays without words, for free.
Mti, CC BY-SA 3.0 Saga Dainembutsu Kyogen spring performance
嵯峨大念佛狂言 春季公演（清凉寺）
Time From 13:30 Station Saga-Shakado-mae bus stop (City Bus 28), 2 min walk
Masked plays without words, performed by the Saga Dainembutsu Kyogen preservation society on the kyogen stage at Seiryo-ji, one of Kyoto's three nembutsu kyogen. Free to watch, rain or shine.
Mti, CC BY-SA 3.0 Saga Matsuri
嵯峨祭 還幸祭
Time From 10:00, at Arashiyama Nakanoshima Park about 15:00 Station Saga-Arashiyama (JR Sagano Line), 10 min walk
The festival of the Atago and Nonomiya shrines: on its last day about 600 bearers carry the mikoshi round Saga and across Togetsukyo, behind halberd floats and a children's procession. The mikoshi come out to the otabisho a week earlier.
Mti, CC BY-SA 3.0 Saga Dainenbutsu Kyogen Autumn Performance
嵯峨大念佛狂言 秋季定期公演
Time 13:30 to 16:30 (former members' show from 11:30) Station Saga-Shakado-mae bus stop (City Bus 28, 91), 2 min walk
Masked players act out plays without a word on Seiryo-ji's kyogen stage, one of Kyoto's three great nembutsu kyogen and an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. This autumn it's Hashi Benkei, Shibari Bozu and Tsuchigumo from 13:30, after a show of Momijigari by former members at 11:30, and it's free and goes ahead in rain.
Mti, CC BY-SA 3.0 Nearby
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.
Good to know
- What is the address of Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street?
- 8 Saga-Toriimoto Sennou-cho, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto (in Japanese: 京都市右京区嵯峨鳥居本仙翁町8).
- What are the opening hours of Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street?
- Tue to Sun 10:00 to 16:00; Closed Mon. These are the hours of the free preservation centre on the street. When Monday is a public holiday it closes on Tuesday instead, and it's closed from 26 December to 6 January.
- How do I get to Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street?
- The nearest station is Toriimoto bus stop (Kyoto Bus 62, 72, 92, 94). Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street is in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
- How much does Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street cost?
- Nothing. Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street is free to visit.
- How long do you need at Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street?
- Plan for 45 min.
- When is the best time to visit Saga-Toriimoto Preserved Street?
- Weekday mornings.
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