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Everything about this beautiful restaurant is utterly Japanese, from the cushion seats to the ...

For 300 years, this restaurant in Maruyama Park has survived on one simple recipe - cod and ...

Japan’s most Zen city still has several restaurants that serve the monks’ traditional meatless ...

When the summer humidity kicks in, the Japanese scoff eels for a stamina boost. Most places ...

Before there was Kyoto, there was Gion Temple, established in 656. By the mid tenth century, ...

A monzeki temple, meaning the head priest has to be of imperial blood, Shoren-in has been home ...

Kodai-ji’s next-door neighbour is a 24m-high concrete bodhisattva that towers over a small ...

When Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the warrior who unified Japan, died in 1598, his grieving widow Nene ...

Japan loves to rank its attractions, and Kyoto’s oldest Zen temple has been deemed the city’s ...

Samurai helmets, swords and body armour are crammed into a huge townhouse in backstreet Gion. ...

Textiles, video art, installations, sculpture and even paintings are shown at this three-room ...

One of the city’s best contemporary art spaces, Galerie 16 has been running since 1962. In ...

After visiting Kodai-ji, step across the street to see Entoku-in, a sub-temple that for 19 ...

Known locally as ‘Ebessan’, this shrine was established in 1202 as a guardian of Kennin-ji. It ...

Like a B-lister’s house on the Hollywood Homes Tour, this temple struggles to impress amid such ...