Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art Square
The annex of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art was built by the side of canal, on the site where Kyoto Municipal Auditorium East Hal, which as built in Taisho 6...
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Keage Station
"Keage" literally means to kick up something, and it is supposedly derived from a historical event. In autumn Angen 3 (1177) Ushiwaka-maru (Minamoto no Yoshits...
Nanzen-ji
Nanzen-ji Temple is one of the 15 head temples of Rinzai and Obaku sects of Zen Buddhism, and it is the headquarters of the Nanzen-ji branch of the sects. Hoj...
Kyoto Prefectural Library
The Kyoto Prefectural Library opened in Kyoto Gyoen National Garden (Imperial Palace) in Meiji 31 (1898), and moved to its present location in Meiji 42 (1909). ...
Framed Motto of Sakuro Tanabe
The phrase "Suiri-wo karite jinko-wo tasuku" means "Use natural water to make it useful for human work", It is a quote from the imperial rescript of Emperor Me...
The Statue of Sakuro Tanabe
Sakuro Tanabe, who worked as the chief engineer of Lake Biwa Canal construction, greatly contributed to Japan's modernization as civil engineer and educator, su...
Cenotaph
This cenotaph was built by the Electric Department of Kyoto City, which was responsible for the Lake Biwa Canal, to mourn for the people who died in accidents o...
Daijingu Bridge
Himukai-Daijingu is a shrine build by the order of Emperor Kenzo, the 23th emperor. The divine spirit enshrined there said to be transferred from the ridge of M...
Heian-jingu Shrine
Heian-Jingu Shrine was built in Meiji 28 (1895) in commemoration of the 1100th anniversary of the transfer of the national capital to Kyoto. It was built as a p...
Kyoto City Zoo
Kyoto City Zoo opened in April Meiji 36 (1903) in commemoration of the marriage of Emperor Taisho. The zoo is working actively on "Conservation of Species" to p...
Keage Boading Area
The use of boat boarding areas started after the excavation work completed in Meiji 23 (1890) to carry passengers and cargoes on boat through Lake Biwa Canal. I...
Former Gosho Water Pumping Facility
The dignified brick building is the "Former Gosho Water Pumping Facility", which was built to convey water used for fire protection at the Imperial palace. It w...
Keage Power Plant Water Pipe
These water conduits still send water from Lake Biwa to Keage Power Plant, the Japan's first business-use hydropower plant, and generate up to 4,500 kW of elect...
Keage Incline
Keage Incline is the slope railway installed between the upstream Keage Boat Reservoir and the downstream Nanzen-ji Boat Reservoir so that the boats passing thr...
Nejirimanpo Tunnel
"Nejirimampo", which means a twisted tunnel, is a tunnel for pedestrians going toward Nanzen-ji Temple through under the Keage Incline. The bricks were piled in...
Murin-an
Murin-an is a villa of Aritomo Yamagata, an elder statesman of the Meiji Era, which was built in Meiji 27 to 29 (1894 to1896), and its garden was designed by Ji...
Lake Biwa Canal Museum
The Lake Biwa Canal Museum is a facility that was established with the support of citizens of Kyoto, in hopes of sharing the significance of the canal with as m...
Water Divided From Lake Biwa Canal
The bank of the branch canal was constructed in the late Showa Era. A part of it, where a philosopher Kitaro Nishida supposedly strolled while being absorbed in...
Nanzen-ji Suirokaku
Suirokaku, a part of the canal branch into which the first canal was divided from Keage to the north, is an aqueduct bridge passing through the precincts of Nan...
Keage Power Plant
"Keage Power Plant", which was the first business-use hydraulic power plant in Japan, was built in 1891 (Meiji 24). This project started with the fearless sugg...
Okazaki Canal
Okazaki canal is a part of the First Lake Biwa Canal that is about 20 km from the Lake Biwa intake in Mihogasaki, Otsu City to the Ujigawa River in the Yodo Riv...