Culture Oyumi Hajime Festival 2025 Kim Nara's Oyamato Shrine holds their annual Oyumi Hajime Festival on January 4th. The purpose of the festival is to pray for goo...
20 Culture Dorogawa Onsen Ryusenji Temple Bryan Baier Ancient folklore, traditional architecture, a lack of crowds and stunning autumn leaves at the height of color make Ryusenji ...
Culture Kawakami-mura's Fudokutsu Cave Bryan Baier The Fudokutsu Cave in Nara’s Kawakami-mura was used by practitioners of Shugendo, Buddhist mountain asceticism, as a cleansin...
Culture Swinging Taiko at the Tsuribashi Festival 2024 Bryan Baier Taiko drums on an Indy Jones-esque bridge!
Culture Setsubun Mantoro 2025 Jessica Lin At the Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara, more than 3,000 lanterns in the precincts are lit up.
Culture Hiroshi Nagai Exhibition 2021 Kim From late July until late August, the Nara Tsutaya bookstore will be hosting an exhibition of works from Tokushima-born illus...
Culture Mount Shigi and Chogosonshi-ji Temple Gary Luscombe Chogosonshi-ji, commonly known as Shigisan, is a mountain temple in Nara Prefecture dedicated to the God of War. The history ...
Culture Kansai Helicopter Tours Japan Travel Kansai by helicopter is a unique and thrilling experience that provides an aerial perspective of Japan's rural countryside. T...
Culture Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo 2021 Kim Aspecial exhibition taking place at the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art looks at the works of Hiroshige Utagawa (1797 - 1858),...
Culture William Morris Design Exhibition 2021 Kim William Morris (1834 - 1896) was a British textile designer who was associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He'...
