The ultimate design-lover's guide to where to stay, what to eat, and the sites you can't miss in the historic Japanese city.

The golden triangle may lure first-timers, but there's refuge in the Alps' mountain towns – with a Little Kyoto and hot ...

TCS World Travel is launching an 11-day private jet journey through Japan next summer. The journey visits three regions and ...

The Best Hotels in Kyoto for Every Type ... Its 160 rooms face a tranquil interior courtyard or the leafy grounds of Nijo Castle nearby, punctuated by ... OMG the views. The floor-to-ceiling windows ...

It was in the late spring of 1955 that Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene first traveled to northeastern Japan's Tohoku region to follow the ste ...

Japan is a paradise of the unattainable, with temples dating back centuries, high-tech cities, and island resorts. Whether ...

As far as Shinto shrines go (there are about 400 in Kyoto), this one is pretty special. Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari ...

Renkō-ji Temple in Tokyo quietly safeguards an urn believed to contain the ashes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, fueling decades of speculation about his death. Despite conflicting reports and ...

Detailed information for Temples Kinkaku-ji Temple (Rokuon-ji Temple) ... was lost in a fire later. This incident has been the subject of many novels including Yukio Mishima’s “The Temple of the ...

Detailed information for Temples Nanzen-ji Temple located in the Gion, Kawaramachi, Kiyomizu-dera Temple area.The head temple of the Rinzai sect, known as the highest-ranked Zen temple in Japan.

Next was Kyoto, which lived up to its 1,000-year-old history as the Imperial City (before the capital was moved to Tokyo in 1869). We walked around a lake at the sparkly Golden Pavilion and visited ...

Enjoying four very distinct seasons, deciding on the best time to visit Japan will depend on what exactly you want to ...