Mishima-tei: The best sukiyaki in the heart of Kyoto. Taro Mishima, the restaurant’s fifth-generation head chef, specializes ...

This is our Kyoto house tour. I love giving house tours in every country we visit. This house in Kyoto, Japan is a great size and location, it's right by Gion. Giving house tours gives insight into ...

Experience Japan’s most breathtaking autumn landscapes on rail. From Kyoto’s Romantic Train to Toyama’s Kurobe Gorge, ...

Japan doesn’t do daylight saving time, so it was already dark when I left northern Kyoto’s Ichijoji Station at dinnertime one September. The area’s 14 UNESCO World Heritage sites were closed for the ...

Once upon a time when Japan was exotic, Kyoto was a city unlike any other. The ancients knew it as Heian Kyo, City of Peace and Tranquility – as indeed it was. Founded in 794 as the new capital of a ...

In the stores I visited in Japan, you could buy umbrellas and underwear, stationery or sake. You could pay an electric bill, ...

This week a new Pokémon Center opens in Kyoto. At first glance it looks like any other Pokémon Center that dots Japan, but it’s not. This is the most traditionally Japanese of them all. The store’s ...

A lot of the things I’ve loved most throughout my life come from Japan. I’ve been playing Pokémon, Mario, and other Japanese video games since I was a kid during the Super Nintendo and Game Boy Color ...

A letter from Tokyo related that the Iseniyama Temple on Lake Biwa, near Kyoto, sent His Imperial Majesty Emperor Yoshihito (122nd ruler of Japan, who was forced into retirement in 1921 owing to a ...