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The name ‘white room’ suggests an archetypical modern art gallery: an open, symmetrical cube. ...

It’s easy to see why philosopher Kitaro Nishida chose this route for his meditative strolls. ...

Like all good magnates, the founder of the Nomura financial conglomerate had a passion for art. ...

A big, grey box designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki is the unbecoming home of ...

Japan loves to rank its attractions, and since the 14th century Nanzen-ji has been rated the ...

In 1903, the year before the Russo-Japanese War, four leaders gathered to plan foreign policy ...

What this museum lacks in depth, it makes up for in breadth, with introductions to every ...

It may be Japan’s second largest zoo, but it’s rather a sorry home for around 700 beasts. The ...

The ‘City of Kyoto’ is listed as the official architect of this monumental building. If so, the ...

Three generations of the Hosomi family built an extraordinary private collection of Japanese ...

To mark its 1,100th birthday, Kyoto built itself an enormous shrine, complete with a 24m-high ...

While Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion lives up to its dazzling name, Ginkaku-ji (the Silver ...

Eikan-do calls itself ‘the Temple of Maple Leaves’, but that’s a little modest for a complex ...

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

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

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 ...

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