Two seasoned trip planners on how to best tour the Golden Route through five cities, including Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.

Hiking on the Nakasendo trail in the Gifu and Nagano Prefectures of central Japan, I encounter more ... the Nakasendo trail connected Kyoto and Edo, now modern-day Tokyo. Along this path, 69 ...

KYOTO--Monks at Chion ... the early years of the Edo Period (1603-1867). It is 3.3 meters tall, 2.8 meters wide and weighs 70 tons. It is regarded as one of Japan’s three most distinguished ...

They deduced that the species arrived in the Kyushu region and expanded its habitat eastward on the back of the movement of people and distribution of goods. Japanese gecko, or nihon yamori ...

On his first and only visit to Japan, in the late fall ... he wrote in his diary about Kyoto. The Japanese are “pure souls as nowhere else among people.” The populace was equally impressed ...

Walking a legendary road in Japan provided Hastings artist Nigel Caple with the inspiration for his latest exhibition which ...

Hiking on the Nakasendo trail in the Gifu and Nagano Prefectures of central Japan, I encounter more Buddhist jizo statues ... Beginning in the 17th century, the Nakasendo trail connected Kyoto and Edo ...

Located near the stage of Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Jishu-jinja Shrine is a historic shrine whose founding is thought to predate the founding of Japan ... Kyoto. Koiuranai-no-ishi—love fortune stones ...

The shrine has over 600-years of history and people fondly call the Shrine Sannou-san. The history of the Shrine goes back to the beginning of the Kamakura era when a man named Edo built a Hie ...

Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...