Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...

S et inside the former Telephone Exchange building, Ace Hotel Kyoto is ideally placed to explore one of Japan’s most vibrant ...

KYOTO—Sixteen shrines and temples here are now granting access to their private statues and architecture for a spring ...

In the dark of night, completely empty, we explore the gates of Kyoto's Fushimi inari Shrine. While its famously said to have 10,000 torii gates that wind up the mountain, the real number is north ...

Fushimi Inari Taisha is famous for the vermillion shrine gates that line mountain paths. As the head Inari shrine, it has 30,000 subordinate shrines throughout Japan.

Editor’s note: This series showcases what we are calling “kawaii” (cute) items made locally in the iconic Japanese city. Tanka, founded 270 years ago, is the only remaining pottery for ...

It was a little more than 25 years ago that I first walked the streets of Gion, the centuries-old geisha district of Kyoto ... of red torii gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine that led up a wooded ...