Kyoto, once the imperial capital of Japan for over a thousand years, holds a diverse cultural heritage that makes this city, located in the Honshu region, a major tourist attraction across the globe.

Koju was founded in Kyoto during the Tensho era and is a venerable incense store that presented incense to the Imperial Palace. It served Hideyoshi and Ieyasu, and has supported Japan's incense ...

‘A sanctuary of ethereal beauty’: these are the words Japanese architect Kengo Kuma uses to describe his new hotel project, Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto, which sits in the magical bamboo forests of ...

BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- "Summer rain on the wall traces of torn poem cards" -- When Chinese traveler "Hikari" visited the Rakushisha in Kyoto, Japan, she could not help thinking of the poem ...