In the Edo period, kimono wearers stored their keepsakes inside small containers that hung from ...
Osaka is the home of bunraku (a traditional Japanese form of theatre, which features large ...
It’s Universal Studios with samurai but without the rides in this movie-set theme park from ...
Kanze is Japan’s largest and Kyoto’s most prolific Noh school, and claims a direct line back to ...
Kiyomizu-yaki is a celebrated local style of ceramics that developed when Kyoto was flourishing ...
Modern dramas and musicals are the staples of this pristine 875-seat theatre inside Kyoto ...
In place of nets or rods, Uji’s fishermen use cormorants on leashes. The birds dive for the ...
There’s no need to be a guest at this luxurious ryokan to use their indoor and outdoor hot ...
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 ...
This crash course in Japanese culture squeezes seven traditional art performances into less ...
Before the emperor moved to Tokyo, the palace grounds housed more than 200 estates for court ...
The Kongo Noh school, one of the nation’s big five, has been performing for 26 generations. ...
The home ground of Kyoto Sanga FC, the city’s perennially under-performing J-League football ...
Take the aptly named Sagano Scenic Railway from Saga Torokko Station (adjacent to JR Saga ...
Technically it’s a sento (Japanese bathhouse) rather than an onsen (hot spring) since the heat ...
Most of the year, this is where geishas and maikos practice their routines; occasionally it ...
Double bills of second-run movies are the speciality of this half-century-old cinema, but in ...
Kyoto’s oldest Noh theatre was built in 1908, and had its last major refurbishment nine years ...
Built by starchitect Kengo Kuma, Cocon Karasuma is filled with design-related concept stores ...
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