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One of Japan’s best-known castles, Osaka-jo was built to flaunt the power of warlord Hideyoshi ...

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

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

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

Proud of its prominent role in the world’s oldest novel, Uji opened this dedicated museum in ...

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

In 2004, Osaka razed its old National Museum of Art and replaced it with an eye-popping piece ...

The origins of this Tendai sect temple date back to 985. The buildings that now comprise this ...

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

To appreciate just how powerful the Fujiwara family was during the eighth century, head first ...

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 ...

One of the tenets of the ‘new religion’ Church of World Messianity is that art and beauty can ...

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 ...

Crypto-Christian artworks and the Jesuit bell of Kyoto’s first church are the unlikely ...