KYOTO--The public will be offered rare access to temples, shrines and Buddhist statues normally closed off in the ancient ...

Banyan Tree Higashiyama is a full five-star escape that goes all-in with serenity, wellness and quiet wow-factor. Set among lush gardens and surrounded by a tranquil bamboo forest, the hotel feels ...

Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari Taisha, or Fushimi Inari Shrine, is one of the most distinctly beautiful places in all of Japan. Walking paths wind up and around the mountain that the shrine’s main building ...

Tea House Senkutsu is reached after walking down a wide moss-covered pathway that cuts through the lushly forested garden ...

Filming is underway at a traditional machiya townhouse in Kyoto for a documentary depicting the life of residents at the ...

Obama is a quaint coastal community today, but a visit grants a look at how it played a crucial role in stocking the pantries ...

Young people dressed in traditional clothing have shot their first arrows of the year in a national treasure hall at a temple ...

KYOTO--Monks at Chion-in temple in Higashiyama Ward here did a test run of its famed hanging bell on Dec. 27 to prepare for the traditional bell-ringing ceremony on New Year’s Eve. In the test that ...

A video of a man presumed to be Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong dining alone at a ramen shop in Kyoto, Japan, has ...