Accommodations rarely get more atmospheric than this: a 100-plus-year-old Kyoto town house that once housed maiko, or Japan’s apprentice geisha, now renovated to 21st-century standards and trimmed in ...

Kyoto has a reputation as a place where there’s a second meaning behind people’s choice of words. Often that meaning is meant to subtly nudge the recipient’s behavior in a certain direction, like ...

Mishima-tei: The best sukiyaki in the heart of Kyoto. Taro Mishima, the restaurant’s fifth-generation head chef, specializes in perfectly aged Kuroge wagyu beef. You will be asked to remove your shoes ...

For centuries Kyoto has been a tea town, its dominance reaching an apex in the austere and highly ritualized tea ceremony. But, for the past century at least, Kyoto has also been a coffee town.

Text description provided by the architects. The current wooden house system based on bearing wall calculation hardly fits in with the ‘eel’s bed’ or the elongated housing lots typical of Kyoto, an ...

KYOTO--On a recent evening, residents in the scenic Arashiyama district here exclaimed “so spectacular” and “really fantastic” as the Chikurin no Komichi bamboo grove was lit up by bamboo cylinders ...

Seika Town Mayor Masami Sugiura, right, and Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, president of Ostrich Pharma KK and Kyoto Prefectural University, are seen holding the "ostrich antibody masks" added to the returned ...

With cobbled streets centred around a willow-lined canal, the historical quarter of Bikan in Kurashiki is one of the prettiest in Japan. It’s on the Seto Inland Sea coast; travellers can drift along ...