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

Kyoto, the cultural heart of Japan, is where ancient traditions take centre stage. Noted for its centuries-old temples, alluring geisha district, and time-honoured crafts, this city quietly pulses ...

An Israeli tourist was asked to sign a document stating that he had not committed war crimes when he checked in at a Kyoto guesthouse in April, prompting the Israeli ambassador to Japan to lodge a ...

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 ...

Water gushing from a broken pipe has inundated a national highway in Kyoto City, western Japan. City officials suspect aging infrastructure is to blame. A passerby reported the incident at around ...

Local legends Kyoto is the Japan of old: cobbled streets and low-slung wooden machiya houses host to fashion boutiques and ramen joints (for which the culinary scene is famous). Duck down alleys ...

A massive underground water leak early Wednesday flooded streets near a busy intersection on a national route in central Kyoto, potentially disrupting water supplies for approximately 6,000 ...

While Kyoto has always been among the nation’s top travel destinations ... always one of the first answers tourists give when asked what they want to do in Japan. However, many of the most popular ...

KYOTO—A decades-old underground water pipe ruptured in a central part of Kyoto, causing flooding and traffic congestion in the middle of the Golden Week holiday season. Traffic controls enforced ...

Japan needs to firmly refuse US President Donald Trump’s calls for Tokyo to increase what it pays to keep American military bases in the country, a former Japanese foreign minister said, a day ...

This is a busy period in U.S.-Japan relations as well as Japanese politics, where legislators are debating a range of domestic and foreign policy issues. The Japan Innovation Party, a member of the ...