This is painful,” Maggie James told me as we took a stroll through Gion, the famous ... to Kyoto’s founding in 794 as Japan’s imperial capital. (Kyoto has more temples than Rome has churches.) It is ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

A Western-style building with a remarkable exterior stands at the western side of Shijo Ohashi Bridge over the Kamo River in ...

Between the two shores of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, the Chapel Bridge traces a diagonal line of wood across water and ...

A drunk American tourist broke into and damaged a centuries-old Zen temple in Kyoto, reports Tokyo Weekender. The incident ...