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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 ...

When Emperor Go-Mizuno retired in the 17th century, a new palace was constructed for him in the ...

Tea master Sen no Rikyu was one of the early admirers of raku-yaki, the ceramics of the Raku ...

A treat for fans of ninja films, this former inn is packed with hidden passages, secret ...

Although this single-room museum contains just a handful of exhibits, it’s a free and fun ...

Poor little Rokkakudo doesn’t get much attention in a city packed with far grander temples, but ...

A former branch of the Bank of Japan, the building is arguably more impressive than its ...

Three galleries and a select store make up this Tadao Ando-esque concrete complex. Each gallery ...

The creators of this sizeable garden couldn’t have imagined that future generations would see ...