To mark its 1,100th birthday, Kyoto built itself an enormous shrine, complete with a 24m-high ...
While Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion lives up to its dazzling name, Ginkaku-ji (the Silver ...
A big, grey box designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki is the unbecoming home of ...
Japan loves to rank its attractions, and since the 14th century Nanzen-ji has been rated the ...
The name ‘white room’ suggests an archetypical modern art gallery: an open, symmetrical cube. ...
It’s easy to see why philosopher Kitaro Nishida chose this route for his meditative strolls. ...
Like all good magnates, the founder of the Nomura financial conglomerate had a passion for art. ...
In 1903, the year before the Russo-Japanese War, four leaders gathered to plan foreign policy ...
What this museum lacks in depth, it makes up for in breadth, with introductions to every ...
It may be Japan’s second largest zoo, but it’s rather a sorry home for around 700 beasts. The ...
The ‘City of Kyoto’ is listed as the official architect of this monumental building. If so, the ...
Three generations of the Hosomi family built an extraordinary private collection of Japanese ...
Eikan-do calls itself ‘the Temple of Maple Leaves’, but that’s a little modest for a complex ...
The ‘Kampo’ Museum is named after Kampo Harada, the most eminent calligrapher of the 20th ...
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