Culture Three Days in Kyoto (day 2) Joe Peters Gion is best known as the Geisha district in Kyoto. Visit where Mineko Iwasaki lived. She was the geisha whose partial story ...
9 Culture Exotic Beauty of Kin-gyu-in Larry Knipfing At Kin-gyu-in, the outer gate was open. Nobody was there; the inner gate was closed. I turned back to leave when something ca...
Culture Kyoto Tea Ceremony at Room Juan Yiwen Liang For the Japanese people, tea ceremony is not only a way to commune with the guests but also an art form to showcase its ancie...
Culture Sanjusangendo Temple - Kyoto Katherine Moore See the awe-inspiring sight of vast sea of 1000 life sized golden statues of the Buddhist 'goddess of mercy' the bodhisattva ...
10 Culture Shisendo Temple's Hermitage Garden Bonson Lam Jozan Ishikawa became a hermit and a poet, and retired amongst the manicured gardens of Shisendo, which he constructed after ...
Culture Hideyoshi's Toyokuni Shrine, Kyoto Takako Sakamoto Toyokuni Shrine, Higashiyama, Kyoto, is where Toyotomi Hideyoshi is enshrined. Closed in 1615 by Tokugawa Ieyasu, it was resu...
Culture Kanga-an, Kyoto's Tipsy Temple? Charlotte Griffiths Kanga-an, one of Kyoto's smaller temples, boasts a beautiful zen garden and a secret bar.
Culture The Kurama-Kibune Mountain Trail Alena Eckelmann The Kurama-Kibune Mountain Trail. In the footsteps of Reiki founder Mikao Usui
Culture Shakyo at Kyoto's Unryuin Temple Karen Zheng Being a branch temple of the Sennyu-ji Temple, the Unryuin Temple was commissioned in the late 14th century by Emperor Go-Kog...
Culture Kyoto Tofuku-ji's Hojo Garden Tomoko Kamishima The designer and planner of this garden (which was built in 1939), Shigemori Mirei, called them 'concept gardens containing a...