Once Japan’s Imperial capital, the city has been a spiritual and cultural epicentre for more than a thousand years. That ...

April in Kansai bursts with color and excitement. Alongside cherry blossom festivals and seasonal traditions, you'll also ...

Springtime in Kyoto draws many travelers because of comfortable ... can begin flowering on any given day from late March to mid-April). Despite the blossoms' arbitrary start-date, the city fills ...

Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, long a popular destination for ... “We are going to put up signs in April that tell tourists to stay out of our private streets,” he told The Associated ...

Tuttle Publishing announced that Tales of the Kyoto Ghost Priest: True Horror Stories from Japan, the manga edition, will launch on April 1! When your house is haunted by demons, who do you call?

“We wanted to do right by these buildings.” Photo: Jason Schmidt. In Kyoto, a young couple, Sam Brustad and Yuki Shirato, turned to Pritzker Prize–winning architect Kazuyo Sejima, a ...

From March 2026, Kyoto will hike its lodging tax from ¥1,000 to ¥10,000 for luxury rooms costing ¥100,000 or more per night. It will be ¥400 or less for rooms costing less than ¥20,000.