Kyoto, the cultural heart of Japan ... Rooms overlook leafy inner gardens or offer views of the city’s skyline: floor-to-ceiling windows and marshmallow-soft beds are a guarantee in all 81 ...

With more than 1,200 years of history and a landscape punctuated with serene temples, vibrant markets, and world-renowned cuisine, Kyoto is where ... breathe your way to inner calm under the ...

KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kyoto City is calling for donations from a wide range of people, including those living overseas and foreign tourists visiting Kyoto in the future. Accordingly ...

Despite being just a two hour bullet train from bustling Tokyo, Kyoto offers travelers a very different pace. Home to hundreds of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, this peaceful city is well ...

On any given month, Kyoto might receive from 3 million to 4 ... the so-hot-right-now brand Capella will open its doors in the city’s Gion district. (It’s the same company whose Bangkok hotel ...

KYOTO—Sixteen shrines and temples here are now granting access to their private statues and architecture for a spring exhibition organized by the Kyoto Heritage Preservation Association with ...

Compared to other large Japanese cities, Kyoto’s city center has remarkably little rail service. With no train lines running through the downtown area, and only two subway lines, if you want to get ...

“Beautiful” and “traditional” are words just about every visitor to Kyoto uses to describe it. The city government is well aware, and proud, of that reputation, and in order to preserve those ...

KYOTO--The Kyoto municipal government plans to impose a tax on vacant homes to prevent young people from fleeing the city due to skyrocketing apartment prices. Demand for Kyoto properties ...