Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...

Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...

In this guide, I’ll share a handful of less-touristy activities that allow you to see a different side of Kyoto—one that goes ...

Japan is in the middle of an unprecedentedly huge inbound international travel boom, with the country’s major tourism ...

Kyoto isn’t the hidden gem it once was. When I first created this itinerary back in 2016, most of the city felt like a ...

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KYOTO—A cafe owner who promotes universally ... Her cafe is located near both Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine and Tofukuji temple, popular tourist sites. “We wanted to overcome the negative ...

Fushimi Inari Taisha is famous for the vermillion shrine gates that line mountain paths. As the head Inari shrine, it has 30,000 subordinate shrines throughout Japan. Since its foundation in 711 ...

KYOTO--A stone wall unearthed at the ruins of Fushimi Castle here suggests that 16th-century warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi built the structure with the latest quake-resistant techniques after a ...