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

You probably didn’t come to Kyoto for rococo European architecture, but the style of this ...

On your pilgrimage to the nearby mega-temples, stop here for some uniquely Japanese desserts. ...

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

This museum covers the characters and details of the Meiji Restoration, when the Shogunate was ...

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

The main reason to visit the old home of Yasuyuki Namikawa (1845-1927) is to see examples of ...

Though best known for a shidarezakura (weeping cherry tree) that lures visitors galore in ...

Check the artwork in the entrance to see whether the current exhibition at this five-floor ...

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

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

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 ...

The entrance to Chion-in, the head temple of Buddhism’s Jodo sect, is as imposing as it is ...