Tulips bloom in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward on April 8, 2025, at the Kyoto Botanical Gardens, the oldest garden of its kind in Japan, ...

This is one of Japan's most famous gardens for good reason ... The fact that it's a calm and budget-friendly Japanese destination in comparison to Kyoto only adds to its appeal.

The most famous of these can be found in Kyoto at the 15th-century ... "While there are other similar gardens of great beauty," says James Ulak, curator of Japanese art at Smithsonian's Freer ...

KYOTO--Reflecting the Japanese traditional aesthetics of “wabi-sabi” (transience and imperfection), moss-covered gardens have long mesmerized visitors from home and abroad. But there has been ...

Plum blossoms are at their best in various parts of Kyoto. Kitano Tenmangu Shrine, known as a famous plum blossom viewing spot, has about 1,500 plum t ...

Indeed, Kyoto has managed not only to preserve ... and smuggle a touch of Las Vegas into centuries-old rock gardens. Platinum blond Japanese teenagers now pay $100 or more to get made up as ...

"When he came back out an hour later, he told me: 'I would like to have a garden like that.'" The Nomura Villa of Kyoto is usually closed to the public In terms of Japanese cuisine, Oshima says ...

Toemon Sano, a 93-year-old resident of Kyoto’s Ukyo Ward, has precious memories of Kyiv. Sano was involved in building a Japanese garden called Kyoto Park with a stone pagoda in Kyiv in 1981.

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

Osamu Tada’s lovely restaurant oozes serenity and calm, from the manicured gardens and outside patio to the lengthy ... It’s smart to make advance reservations. Check out Kyoto Japanese Restaurant in ...