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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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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