3D print Kiyomizu-dera
A free, printable model of Kiyomizu-dera's main hall, with its broad roof and veranda raised on tall pillars, among green slopes and nearby buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Kiyomizu-dera
Kiyomizu-dera is a Buddhist temple in eastern Kyoto, Japan, and its name means Pure Water Monastery. Its complete name is Otowa-san Kiyomizu-dera. Its sect is Kita-Hosso, and its honzon, a hibutsu statue, depicts Jūichimen Kannon. On the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage it is stop number sixteen. Together with Kurama-dera and Kōryū-ji, it is among the few Kyoto temples that are older than the founding of the capital at Heian-kyō.
Its origins are shrouded in legend, with little verifiable documentation. In the founding story, a monk named Kenshin, later renamed Enchin, followed a message in a dream to Mount Otowa in 778. In the same story, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro later donated his house as the main hall and named the temple Kiyomizu-dera. The complex has burned down nine times, with fires recorded from 1063 until 1629. The present main hall went up in 1633, funded by a donation from Tokugawa Iemitsu after a fire in 1629, and many other buildings were rebuilt around then.
The temple sits at the base of Mount Otowa, in the Higashiyama range that dominates eastern Kyoto. Its main hall features a broad veranda that projects over the hillside on tall pillars in the kakezukuri style, and the whole structure contains no nails. Beneath the hall, the Otowa waterfall sends three channels of water into a pond. An Edo-period tradition held that surviving a 13 m (43 ft) jump from the stage would grant a wish.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 12 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 15 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 20 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slender pillars under the veranda
- The veranda and hall stand on a tall grid of slender pillars and crossbeams. Print friendly adapts these thin parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps every pillar, best on a larger print, printed slowly with good cooling.
- Broad roofs with fine ridges
- The wide hipped roofs overhang the walls and carry many fine ridge lines. A larger print size and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Kiyomizu-dera is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Kiyomizu-dera takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Kiyomizu-dera is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Kiyomizu-dera STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Kiyomizu-dera grows with the print: about 12 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
