14 New Year at Fushimi Inari Shrine Cathy Cawood At New Year, Fushimi Inari Shrine is always extremely crowded but the atmosphere is festive and exciting. Evening is a good time..
10 Winter Morning Walk Cathy Cawood Trail starting at Rokusho Shrine and leading up into the Higashiyama Hills looked beautiful on a snowy winter morning.
11 Saionji in Kyoto Cathy Cawood This temple in northern Kyoto had a dry garden with piles of stones, a quantity of brush brooms lying on the verandah, and som..
Activities Tea and Tradition at Taneya Cathy Cawood Visit a beautiful traditional Japanese sweet shop in Omihachiman Himure Village that has been selling delicious sweets for over..
13 Tennei-ji in Kyoto Cathy Cawood The gate of this Kyoto temple perfectly frames a view of Mount Hiei. It contains several buildings and an Inari shrine in a pretty..
Activities Tokyo Midtown Starlight Garden 2024 Mid Nov - Late Dec Starlight Garden in Tokyo Midtown, a sea of 280,000 blue LED lights delivers an awe-inspiring and beautiful Christmas light show...
11 Kodoji in Kyoto Cathy Cawood Small but beautiful Kyoto temple was once part of a larger Tendai Buddhist complex, and is part of the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage...
11 Northern Biwako Sunset Cathy Cawood Beautiful scenery along the Oku-Biwako Parkway from Makino to Nishi-Azai, starting in late afternoon and finishing with a pink sun..