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A monzeki temple, meaning the head priest has to be of imperial blood, Shoren-in has been home ...

This museum covers the characters and details of the Meiji Restoration, when the Shogunate was ...

Though best known for a shidarezakura (weeping cherry tree) that lures visitors galore in ...

When Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the warrior who unified Japan, died in 1598, his grieving widow Nene ...

Japan loves to rank its attractions, and Kyoto’s oldest Zen temple has been deemed the city’s ...

Samurai helmets, swords and body armour are crammed into a huge townhouse in backstreet Gion. ...

Textiles, video art, installations, sculpture and even paintings are shown at this three-room ...

One of the city’s best contemporary art spaces, Galerie 16 has been running since 1962. In ...

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 ...

You don’t need to be a manga fan to be charmed by this vast but endearing museum, with a ...

Although Kyoto held the imperial seat for more than a millennium, the ‘Old Imperial Palace’ ...

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 ...

The city’s most hands-on museum is one of its most charming. The friendly staff encourage you ...