KYOTO -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, aged 88, has completed a monumental 92-panel series of paintings ...

Kyoto temple kimono ban at Seiraiin targets disruptive tourist photo shoots after visitors entered restricted areas and ...

Kyoto is packed with history, including roughly 2,000 temples and shrines, yet many of its most famous religious landmarks ...

Visitors to 600-year-old temple prohibited from wearing traditional garment following problems caused by those prioritizing cool social media photos over basic manners.

KYOTO--Priests at Chion-in temple here tolled a 70-ton bell, said to be one of Japan’s three largest temple bells, in a dry run to ring out a year overshadowed by wars overseas.

KYOTO—More than 10,000 visitors have already stepped onto the otherworldly grounds of Toji temple here in the week since the start of its “Toji Tsuki Kairou” (Toji moon corridor). The light-up event ...