Welcome to the trip to "The Katsura Inperial Villa".

[How to enjoy the trip]
  • The grids 1-6 of the shoji door correspond to the spots 1-6 in the Katsura Imperial Villa. If you click in numerical order from Spot 1, you can tour around the villa in the order of the real tour by opening the shoji door.
    Close the shoji door and repeat the procedure to visit the next spot.

  • The way how to open the right side of this shoji door is that you put cursor on the left part of the right shoji. The shape of cursor will become , and you just hold it.

  • If you slide the shoji door, an open view spread before you. You can read essay and see animation if you click this scenary.

  • If you click the left side of the shoji door, it will be open and you can see a guide map of the Katsura Imperial Villa.

[Tour of the Katsura Imperial Villa]

Please contact the office below if you are interested in visiting the Katsura Imperial Villa. Reservations are required. 

   Visitor's Section, the Imperial Household Agency Kyoto Office
      3, Kyoto Gyoen, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto-shi 602 Japan
      tel : 81-75-211-1211