Fushimi-ku, Kyoto (jpn)

Fushimi-ku, Kyoto

Fushimi-ku, Kyoto ranks 5,040th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Aswan, Sulingen, and Murom. Memorable people born in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto include Haruki Murakami, Kazuo Hasegawa, and Rika Izumi. Memorable people who died in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto include Akechi Mitsuhide, Chōsokabe Motochika, and Yasuhiro Takemoto. Fushimi-ku, Kyoto has been the birth place of many actors, and writers and the death place of many military personnels, and politicians. Fushimi-ku, Kyoto is located in Japan.

Fushimi is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down a mountain; Fushimi Castle, originally built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, with its rebuilt towers and gold-lined tea-room; and the Teradaya, an inn at which Sakamoto Ryōma was attacked and injured about a year before his assassination. Also of note is the Gokōgu shrine, which houses a stone used in the construction of Fushimi Castle. The water in the shrine is particularly famous and it is recorded as one of Japan's 100 best clear water spots. Read more on Wikipedia