Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers with its stunning natural scenery, which visitors say is best viewed from the verandah off the temple's main building.

Other gardens in the Sanin region that ranked among the top 50 in Japan were Minamikan ryokan in Matsue (4th); the Yushien garden also in the Shimane prefectural capital (21st); Kokokuji temple in ...

The city was founded 800 years ago as the first capital in Japan built by the samurai class ... Visiting shrines and temples in Kamakura remains highly popular, with the city with a population ...

Spring in Japan, from late March to early May, is a time of renewal. The famous cherry blossoms, or sakura, paint the country ...

Katsuo-ji offers visitors two different types of Darumas: the Kachi-Daruma, the classic doll known as “the winning Daruma” ...

The iconic Japanese dolls range from a couple of inches to several feet in height, and there are thousands of them at the 1,300-year-old temple, located about an hour from downtown Osaka in Minoh ...