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One look at the map ought to dissuade you from staying here. The Utano is tucked away in the ...

Not many temple lodgings come furnished with wireless internet, air-conditioning and a kitchen, ...

There are no frills here: there’s even a ¥100 surcharge for hot water. But with Funaoka Onsen ...

Some ryokan refuse foreign guests, others welcome them. This one insists on them: since the ...

Kyoto’s most foreigner-friendly ryokan has English-speaking staff who can point guests in the ...

The Okura claims to be the oldest hotel in Kyoto, but since it was razed and rebuilt in the ...

Among historic lodgings, few offer as authentic an experience of traditional city life as the ...

Ryokan owners like to talk of their inns as family homes, and Yoshikawa may be the most ...

Even though Ishihara was famously the favourite inn of cinema legend Akira Kurosawa, there are ...

Much has been written about Hiiragiya since it opened in 1861, usually rich with superlatives. ...

Readers of Conde Nast Traveller voted the Hyatt Regency the best hotel in Kyoto (and Japan’s ...

A light renovation has turned a century-old townhouse into one of the city’s most economical ...

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

There was a time when Osakans travelled to Kyoto for clubbing. Now, it’s the other way around, ...

Kyoto is the city of shrines and temples, but Osaka also has its fair share, and Shitenno-ji is ...

Museum is too grand a name for a building that touts a ‘rest area’ as one of its main ...

This temple was perhaps partly to blame for Nara losing its role as capital city. The emperor ...

It’s Universal Studios with samurai but without the rides in this movie-set theme park from ...

Once a sake brewhouse, now one of the city’s most popular live venues, Taku Taku has hosted ...