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 ...
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 ...
If you only visit one temple in Kyoto, make it this World Heritage behemoth. From the balcony ...
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 ...
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