Culture Asakusa Culture & Lights 2025 Dec 3rd - 7th 2025 Past Event This December, Tokyo’s historic Sensoji Temple will host Asakusa Culture & Lights, an illumination event combining ancient tradition with cutting-edge
10 Culture Kamakura Camera Egara Tenjin-sha Shrine Peter Oxley Temples, shrines, and gardens - In praise of plum blossoms
Area Kawagoe Step into old Japan in Kawagoe. This city, also known as “Little Edo” or “ko-edo” in Japanese, is a short 30-minute train ride from central Tokyo and famous for its Edo-period charm. Rent a ..
12 Culture Kongo-ji Peter Sidell In the western suburbs of Tokyo, Kongo-ji is an attractive traditional Japanese Buddhist temple.
Asahi Inari Shrine Julian Kloby Tokyo, is known for having parks and dedicated grounds for shrines and temples... Long ago before Tokyo was the city it is today, many of the shrines and temples
Culture Memorials to Tokugawa Ieyasu Elena Lisina I visited the Nikko temple complex a few years ago and was amazed by how... gates richly decorated with carving and colours, I found more and more temples
Activities Green Shelter in Tokyo Elena Lisina My visit to Nezu Shrine, Gotokuji Temple and Shinjuku Gyoen one summer day was a great relief from the intense sun and heat.
Food Finding a Cooking Class in Kyoto Bonson Lam used to be street food in its heyday, not elevated to the gastronomic temples... Today she went to the temple well to collect some spring water to make