Later, it also served as the announcement site for the end of the country’s feudal rule and the forging area of the modern Japanese state. Get a private tour of Nijo-Jo Castle. From the suite ...

Nijo Castle in central Kyoto was certainly ostentatious enough to fit the bill. Unlike other noble homes of the day, Tokugawa's gleaming white structure – decorated with ornate wood carvings ...

KYOTO—One of the main buildings at Nijo-jo Castle here, a UNESCO World Heritage site, will reopen to the public on Sept. 1 after being closed for 17 years, the city government announced on June 17.

This ushered in the Meiji Period, during which Japan developed very rapidly from a feudal society into the modern democratic nation that we know today. The Nijo-jo Castle thus staged the opening ...

KYOTO--A special breakfast of seasonable goodies is being offered on a limited basis at the Koun-tei teahouse in the gardens of Nijo Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the ancient capital ...