The Honnō-ji Incident was the assassination of Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji temple in Kyoto on 21 June 1582. Nobunaga was on the verge of unifying the country, but died in the unexpected ...

As in the past, Seihan Mori, chief priest of Kyoto's iconic Kiyomizu-dera Temple, wrote the character of the year on a large board at the temple in the city's Higashiyama Ward the same day.

Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers with its stunning natural scenery, which visitors say is best viewed from the verandah off the temple's main building.

The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced on Dec. 12 that the kanji character for 2024, which expresses the state ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

KYOTO--After close to five years of painstaking restoration work, the interior of the impressive Amidado main hall of Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist temple here, a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

So it has to match the address which is not detailed enough to distinguish it only by the temple name ... which Zenko-ji? It is indistinguishable. There are many temples in Kyoto with the same ...

The main training center for Shingon Esoteric Buddhism with its iconic five-story pagoda, the key landmark of Kyoto's scenery. The temple is known as ”Daishi's temple.” Not far south of Kyoto Station ...

Left: Visitors look at the red foliage at Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto on Thursday. Right: A garden is seen from inside Arashiyama Yusai-tei in Kyoto on Dec. 2. The Yomiuri Shimbun 17:19 JST, December 8, ...

To put it bluntly, it was a less impressive temple. After a few days of visiting the temple, I only reported the facility because there was no facility page, and when I was notified that the facility ...

Combat overtourism in other parts of Japan by visiting this central region. Here’s everything you should know before your ...

New Delhi, India — When Nayeem Ahmad, 35, left his sweets shop on Sunday morning to buy cooking oil, his younger brother, Tasleem, did not know that interreligious tensions were boiling over in ...