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Before there was Kyoto, there was Gion Temple, established in 656. By the mid tenth century, ...

Kyoto is the city of shrines and temples, but Osaka also has its fair share, and Shitenno-ji is ...

Museum is too grand a name for a building that touts a ‘rest area’ as one of its main ...

This temple was perhaps partly to blame for Nara losing its role as capital city. The emperor ...

World Heritage site Toji is best known for its landmark pagoda, Japan’s tallest, but is also ...

This temple, south-west of Kyoto Station, boasts one of Japan’s top-rated Zen gardens, as well ...

Japanese whisky has been booming in the last decade, winning medals and market share worldwide. ...

Emperor Go-mizuno abdicated his throne at the tender age of 34 to focus on aesthetic pursuits, ...

In any other city this would be a major attraction: 12,000 plants occupying 24ha, with ...

Perhaps the greatest garden in Kyoto. As you stroll through the 7ha site, an enchanting ...

Even though it’s a trek to reach from the city centre, this World Heritage site is worth the ...

You may have seen the photographs of Fushimi Inari, but you won’t be prepared for the scale of ...

On autumn evenings, when the long ascent to this temple is framed by maple leaves and lit by ...

The Ryoan-ji complex occupies 50 ha at the foot of the Kitayama mountains, but it’s famous for ...

In the Nishijin weaving district, where a fabric auction house once stood, this multi-storey ...

When Emperor Hanazono officially achieved enlightenment, his villa was converted into a Zen ...

A political conflict saw Heian period statesman Sugawara no Michizane demoted to a menial ...

The name ‘white room’ suggests an archetypical modern art gallery: an open, symmetrical cube. ...

A big, grey box designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki is the unbecoming home of ...