After interviewing Egami, I reread the novel "Kinkakuji" (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). The author's take is that the young monk must have been totally bewitched ...

For this Kyoto edition, we independently scoped out more than 350 venues and distilled the list down to the very best of the ...

Hi, my name is Raven, and my husband and I went to Japan for the first time for our honeymoon a couple of years ago. For two weeks, we went to Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, and it was an incredible ...

A thing to note: The only popular temples that actually have restricted time frames are the Kinkaku-ji Temple (aka the Golden Pavilion), which opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m., and Kiyomizu-dera ...

A thing to note: The only popular temples that actually have restricted time frames are the Kinkaku-ji Temple (aka the Golden Pavilion), which opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m., and Kiyomizu-dera ...

Visitors can also admire Tōemon's work at the Ruriko-in estate, where sakura stand in stunning harmony on the property close to the Golden Pavilion of Kinkakuji; the Katsura Imperial Villa; the ...

Originally, Kinkakuji Temple was a mountain villa ... After Yoshimitsu’s death, Muso Soseki founded a zen temple there. During the Onin War, most of the halls were lost in a fire, but the pavilion ...

The Kinkaku-ji Temple, also known as the Golden Pavilion, is one of the most iconic and popular tourist attractions in Kyoto.