Kirara-zaka Slope indicates the old road to the top of Mt. Hiei from the side of Shugakuin Rikyu (the Shugakuin imperial villa) in Shugakuin, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, and is also a road used by the ascetics who practiced Sennichi-kaihogyo (a practice of walking around the mountain while paying visits to various sacred places for 1,000 day in total).
雲母坂（きららざか）は、京都市左京区修学院の修学院離宮脇より、比叡山の山頂に至る古道であり、また、延暦寺千日回峰行の行者道でもある。