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An American landscape designer used glistening pools, raked gravel, bamboo plants and other ...

The store looks brand new, but it has been in business for two decades, selling antique ...

Prince Charles once dined at this historic shabu shabu restaurant. It’s one of several ...

The Sfera Building, designed by Swedish group Claesson Koivisto Rune in 2003, is an oasis of ...

Matcha-coated coffee beans and pickled plum-flavoured peanuts are among the treats at this ...

Back when Kyoto was divided into blocks of merchants, this area specialised in crafting bamboo. ...

A manufacturer of parts for aircraft and bullet trains uses its metalwork expertise to produce ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Chourakukan is best known as a historic dining complex that serves European fare in Rococo and ...

In a city packed with picturesque places to stay, Ayado is an odd proposition: two rooms in a ...

For two weeks every April, the Miyagawa-cho geisha troupe stages its annual Kyo Odori show ...

When Tokyo’s Kabukiza theatre is demolished in 2010, the Minamiza will be unrivalled as the ...

Most of the year, this is where geishas and maikos practice their routines; occasionally it ...