Technically it’s a sento (Japanese bathhouse) rather than an onsen (hot spring) since the heat ...

When Tokyo’s Kabukiza theatre is demolished in 2010, the Minamiza will be unrivalled as the ...

This crash course in Japanese culture squeezes seven traditional art performances into less ...

Kyoto’s oldest Noh theatre was built in 1908, and had its last major refurbishment nine years ...

The Kongo Noh school, one of the nation’s big five, has been performing for 26 generations. ...

In the Edo period, kimono wearers stored their keepsakes inside small containers that hung from ...

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In place of nets or rods, Uji’s fishermen use cormorants on leashes. The birds dive for the ...

Osaka is the home of bunraku (a traditional Japanese form of theatre, which features large ...

There’s no need to be a guest at this luxurious ryokan to use their indoor and outdoor hot ...

The home ground of Kyoto Sanga FC, the city’s perennially under-performing J-League football ...

Take the aptly named Sagano Scenic Railway from Saga Torokko Station (adjacent to JR Saga ...

Kanze is Japan’s largest and Kyoto’s most prolific Noh school, and claims a direct line back to ...

For two weeks every April, the Miyagawa-cho geisha troupe stages its annual Kyo Odori show ...

Kiyomizu-yaki is a celebrated local style of ceramics that developed when Kyoto was flourishing ...

Most of the year, this is where geishas and maikos practice their routines; occasionally it ...

Double bills of second-run movies are the speciality of this half-century-old cinema, but in ...

Before the emperor moved to Tokyo, the palace grounds housed more than 200 estates for court ...

Built by starchitect Kengo Kuma, Cocon Karasuma is filled with design-related concept stores ...