55 BEST KYOTO CAPTIONS FOR INSTAGRAM – GOLDEN AND KAWAII

Traveling to Kyoto?
Exploring Golden Pavillion Kinkakuji and Siver Pavillion Ginkakuji.
Admiring Arashiyama bamboo forest grove and Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine?

We all know that great photos need great captions.

Whatever you do, there will be photos you will want to share on Instagram too. Here is a collection of the best Kyoto Instagram captions to save you the trouble of thinking about one yourself and inspire your imagination. There are Kyoto puns and Kyoto travel quotes that you can copy and paste right under your Instagram photo from the cultural capital of Japan, Kyoto.

You will find Fushimi Inari captions and the ones you can use when visiting Arashiyama bamboo grove, Golden Temple captions, and Instagram captions when walking on the streets of Gion when searching for Geisha and Maiko. 

If you visit Kyoto for a day, 4-days, or stay here for a week, you are guaranteed to have hundreds of stunning photos. They might be from Kinkakuji, Arashiyama, Gion and southern Higashiyama, Fushimi Inari Taisha, or one of Kyoto’s other temples, shrines, and castles (Kiyomizu-Dera Temple, Sanjusangendo Temple, Nijo Castle).

Perhaps you will visit Kyoto tower, or rent a Kimono. You may even be more adventurous and join one of the Kyoto food tours to learn more about Japan’s cultural capital through food tastings and drinks. Or maybe you will just try something more extreme and sign up for a Samurai class?

Have a look at the best Kyoto captions for Instagram!

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1. Kyoto captions for Instagram

1. Kyoto. I love you.
2. Hello from Kyoto.
3. Shrine some light.
4. Say it with a Kimono.
5. Kyoto. Kimono. Kawaii.
6. Konnichiwa from Kyoto.
7. Kyoto delivers pure magic.
8. When in Kyoto, wear a kimono.
9. Finding paradise in the streets of Kyoto.
10. Never coming home. Staying in Kyoto forever.
11. I can’t seem to get the beauty of Kyoto off of my mind.
12. Always listen to your heart… it brings you to magical places.
13. Stepping into Japanese tradition wearing kimono in historic Kyoto.

2. Fushimi Inari Taisha Instagram captions

14. A thousand torii gates.
15. Every exit is an entrance.
16. Journey through a thousand gates.
17. How many Torii gates can you count⁉️
18. Between the iconic torii gates of Fushimi Inari shrine.

3. Quotes about Geisha

19. “A destiny no woman was born into.” – Kunj Joshi
20. “Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.” – Arthur Golden
21. “Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.” – Michelle Yeoh
22. “A teahouse isn’t for tea, you see; it’s the place where men go to be entertained by geisha.” – Arthur Golden
23. “To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you – around your physical body and your heart.” – Michelle Yeoh
24. “We don’t become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.” – Arthur Golden
25. “The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women… Every girl in the world should have geisha training.” – Diana Vreeland
26. “She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.” – Arthur Golden

4. Arashiyama Bamboo forest Instagram captions

27. It’s too wonderful out here to be inside. 
28. Bend but don’t break. Be flexible yet firmly rooted.
29. Just when the light makes its strongest statement.
30. Bamboo adds beauty to life ─ not only on the inside but on the outside too.
31. “Be like bamboo. The higher you grow, the deeper you bow.” – Chinese proverb

5. Kyoto puns

32. I love Kyoto very mochi.
33. You Kyoto be kidding me.
34. Once Udon a time in Kyoto.
35. Shrine bright like a diamond.
36. Kyoto, you make miso happy.
37. Kyoto really is a his-torii-c city.
38. Japan, spring looks so Kyoto-n you!
39. Rice and shrine it’s Kyoto exploring time.
40. There are so many torii-sts at Fushimi Inari.
41. I had a geisha-vu when walking the streets in Gion.
42. Exploring the his-torii-c temples and shrines in Kyoto.
43. Oh, if only the houses in Higashiyama district could tell us s-torii-s from the past.

6. Kinkakuji captions for Instagram

44. Stay golden.
45. Touched by gold.
46. This view is pure gold.
47. Shine bright like Kinkaku-ji.
48. All that glitters really is not gold … except this Golden Pavilion.

7. Kyoto travel quotes

49. “Even in Kyoto when I hear the cuckoo I long for Kyoto.” – Richard Flanagan
50. “There’s nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It’s so different, so special to Japan.” – Zhang Ziyi
51. “I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.” – Henry L. Stimson
52. “As promised, Kyoto Station turned out to be an ordeal. For ninety minutes I searched for a way out of the sixteen-story train station.” – Alice Steinbach
53. “I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.” – Richard Dawkins
54. “Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there’s an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It’s the travel experience that has moved me the most.” – Roman Coppola
55. “I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.” – David Hockney

Final thoughts on Kyoto captions

You made it all the way to the end of this Kyoto Instagram Caption collection blog post. What captions did you like the most? Are the Kyoto quotes at the top of your list? Maybe Geisha quotes? How about Kyoto puns and Tokyo quotes? How about those captions about Fushimi Inari, Kinkakuji, and bamboo forest? Whatever it was, I hope at least one will capture your stunning photo from Kyoto – the cultural city and former capital of Japan.

Thinking about how you can use those caption ideas on your Instagram?
Use short captions on Instagram stories. Combine those with Kyoto travel quotes as a description under the photo. You can even use them as a voice-over on Reels or as a short video. And as far as puns and jokes go … they can be used in Stories combined with an Interactive sticker or posted as a single post. Options are unlimited.

Which is your favorite Kyoto caption?

Shine on,
Anja

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Skipped to the good part? Here is the gist

Visiting Kyoto? Check out the best Kyoto captions for Instagram and Kyoto puns. Anja On Adventure shares the ultimate collection of Kyoto quotes and Geisha quotes, suitable for photos of Golden Temple Kinkakuji, Fushimi Inari Taisha, Gion, Higashiyama, or any other temple and shrine in Kyoto. You can also use Kyoto puns and pair them with photos of Japanese food, or any other Kyoto sight. Use Kyoto Instagram captions when searching for Geisha in Gion or when roaming historic Kyoto streets wearing a kimono.

I hope you found at least a couple of ideas for your Kyoto captions from this collection.

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