Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers with its stunning natural scenery, which visitors say is best viewed from the verandah off the temple's main building.

A towering wooden “Grand Ring” built for Expo 2025 in Osaka pays homage to Japan’s architectural history and is a symbol of ...

Traditional techniques for joining wooden pillars inspired by the famous raised platform at Kiyomizu Temple in nearby Kyoto were used to construct the Grand Ring. So the Expo is also a "wonderful ...

Kyoto’s Sannenzaka Street is one of the city’s most popular attractions, with Tripadvisor reviews describing it as ‘beautiful’ and ‘serene’. However, despite its charm, many visitors have taken issue ...

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Daisuke Kiyomizu knows pottery inside and out. His father was a ceramicist and his grandfather before that. He’s trained to know how long, exactly, to turn a lump of ordinary clay on the wheel ...

KYOTO--About 500 lights were turned on at Kiyomizudera temple in Kyoto ... a national treasure known as “Kiyomizu no Butai,” and the surrounding 1,000 maple trees were spectacularly lit ...