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 ...

Acclaimed writer Pico Iyer describes his first walk in Kyoto 26 years ago, when he found understanding between a Shinto shrine and a 7-Eleven and fell in love with the city forever. My favourite Kyoto ...

Banquets inspired by the natural world, soba noodles, handcrafted tea sweets, contemporary farm-to-table diners; Kyoto is ...

It's hard to take a bad picture in the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove. The segmented green stalks grow as tall as 100 feet, and in ...

The Philosopher’s Walk is a delightful strolling path once favored by scholars like Nishida Kitarō and Tanabe Hajime, both members of the famous Kyoto School, a philosophical movement with Kyoto ...

6 p.m. Walk through one of the hanamachi, or geisha districts, and you may see a geisha or apprentice geisha heading out for the evening. Sightings of these women in elaborate kimono, thick white ...

Seen here is the Yamashina-ku House, a historical samurai residence that is attached to the famous Zuishin-In Temple in Kyoto, which the occupants of days gone by were honor-bound to defend. A short 5 ...

The main structure of Byodo-in - Ho'o-do, or "Phoenix Hall" - was originally built in 1053. (Photo by Mark Jenkins for The Washington Post.) Japan doesn't do daylight saving time, so it was already ...

For a short period of time in its long history, the city of Kyoto was named Heian-Kyo, meaning the capital of tranquility and peace. The city was laid out in a perfectly aligned grid, crafted to ...

To truly see Kyoto, walk, bike or take a train through the historic Japanese city Three itineraries for the unconventional traveller By Washington Post Published Aug 23, 2017 Last updated Aug 23, 2017 ...