Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 10, 2025, shows Kinkaku-ji, or the Golden Pavilion temple, dusted with snow in the western Japan city of Kyoto.

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Besides that, the city is renowned for traditional arts like lacquerware, Kaga Yuzen silk dyeing, and especially its gold leaf production—Kyoto's famous Kinkaku-ji (Golden Temple ... Nagano’s iconic ...

KYOTO—Researchers may have uncovered the ruins of one of the largest ancient cafeterias for a Buddhist temple in the Nara Period (710-784). The Kyoto prefectural board of education made the ...