KYOTO--The public will be offered rare access to temples, shrines and Buddhist statues normally closed off in the ancient ...

Hofu Tenmangu, founded in the year 904, is the oldest of three large shrines in Japan dedicated to the scholar Sugawara no ...

From samurai to skyscrapers and sushi to shrines, this Asian archipelago is the ultimate destination for families with ...

Plan Ahead: Thanks to its scenic setting and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (it's part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto), it should come as no surprise that Kiyomizu-dera Temple is a ...

USTOA tour operators spotlight their top destinations for 2026, pairing perennial favorites like Italy, France and Japan with refreshed itineraries.

From Nara, Einstein and Elsa traveled overnight by train “from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.” to Hiroshima Prefecture. In the early ...

Tourists hit record in Japan, despite plunge from China ...

Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, was speaking at a political rally near a train station in the city of Nara ...

Japan, voted the "world's most favorite destination" last year, welcomed record number of tourists in 2025, officials said on ...

A first-time visitor's reflections on Japan, a land of contradictions that you might say is at the opposite end of the first-world spectrum from Israel. But that's far from the full story The post ...