Too Cute! The "Heart-Shaped Window with Hydrangeas" at a Kyoto Shrine is Going Viral on Social Media ♩

Discovered a Cute "Heart Window" at a Temple in Kyoto♡

The "Heart Window" where hydrangeas can be seen at Yōkoku-ji, a temple in Nagaokakyō City, Kyoto Prefecture, is currently trending＊

Here it is♡

Indeed, you can see the beautiful hydrangea flowers blooming through the heart-shaped (window-like hole) space, which is really lovely!

It's no wonder that many people are visiting to take photos of this cute sight♡

However, when we talk about heart windows, the Inome Window at Shōju-in, which is also located in Kyoto, is quite famous.

Is this heart window at Yōkoku-ji also a traditional Inome Window, similar to the one at Shōju-in...?

Unexpectedly! It was the backrest of a chair...!

The photo that has become popular on social media as the heart window of Yōkoku-ji is,

Not an Inome window or a wall of the building, but it turns out to be a pattern on a wooden chair...!♡

(↓) It looks like this＊

Everyone who visits seems to be taking pictures of the hydrangea flowers over the backrest of this bench!

When I learned this fact, I was incredibly surprised, and at the same time,

I thought everyone who prepared the heart window chair and the first person to capture the photo of the hydrangeas in this composition were amazing!♡

It’s truly Instagram-worthy.

Creative ways of photographing, such as placing hydrangeas of different colors in the heart window, have also been developed, and it’s really cute♡

Moreover, since it's a bench outside, you can casually take lots of pictures without entering the main hall, which is nice.

If I lived in Kyoto, I would want to visit this temple right away!♡

There are more cute spots at Yōkoku-ji♩

Yōkoku-ji, which is holding a hydrangea festival until July 7th, has plenty of other cute hydrangea spots too♡

At the water basin, pastel-colored hydrangeas are floating just during this season♩

[Hydrangea Season] I want to visit Yōkoku-ji in Kyoto＊

Yōkoku-ji, known as a place of prayer for the recovery from eye diseases, has been worshipped since the Heian period.

Why not visit to capture the "Heart Window" where you can see hydrangeas?♡

➡ Here is the homepage of Yōkoku-ji＊