Culture Karuta Hajime New Year's Card Game 2025 Gloria Ticconi At New Year in Japan's former capital of Kyoto, Karuta Hajime is an annual event where a popular traditional card game is pla...
11 Culture Kyoto's Heian Jingu Shrine Shozo Fujii Built in 1895 for the city's 1,100th anniversary of having been made the capital of Japan, Kyoto's Heian Jingu Shrine is a 6/...
Culture Festival of the Great Target Nicole Tee Oh-mato Taikai (Festival of the Great Target), held in conjunction with the Coming of Age Ceremony. An annual event at Sanjūs...
Culture Kyoto: My Alternative Top 3 Temples Peter Sidell Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto is home to hundreds of shrines and temples: here are three of my favourite less visited ones.
Culture Kemari Hajime: Kyoto's Ball Game Gloria Ticconi Held in Shimogamo Shrine in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto, the Kemari Hajime is the year's first game of Kemari, a traditi...
Culture Gio-ji Temple, Kyoto: Part 2 of 4 Shozo Fujii Gio-ji Temple is more of a hermitage than a temple. It is a building with a kitchen sandwiched between two Japanese style roo...
Area Gion Charles Colfer Shijo Dori is filled with restaurants, souvenir shops, clothing stores and anything a shopping complex could hope to have. Mo...
Culture Egad! Is This Kyoto? Arlene Bastion Mt Daimonji shows us a different face to Kyoto. Fireplaces used in a religious ritual can be seen on the mountain slope.
Culture Nison Temple, Kyoto: Origins 2 of 2 Shozo Fujii The nine dragon-headed water god Kuzuryu and lucky god Benzaiten seemed to have fused together. According to Japanese history...
Culture Feeling the Higashiyama Culture Anonymous First impression of the Higashiyama Culture and an encounter with a samurai in Kyoto.
