On the Kamo River of Kyoto, a city renowned for its traditional wooden houses and temples, sits a neglected concrete building. Though now looking a little forlorn, when it opened 40 years ago, this ...

In the town of Miyama, Kyoto Prefecture, there’s a renovated kominka (Japanese folk house) called Thyme. Owner Noriko Kamisawa’s childhood home, Thyme is now a guesthouse for weary travelers. “I ...

As Japan’s former imperial capital, from which the country was ruled between 794 and 1869, Kyoto provides a window to the nation’s fascinating history, where temples, shrines, palaces and gardens ...

Architecture studio 07Beach has placed a bathroom alongside a central courtyard at the centre of this house in Kyoto to give the clients the feeling of "open-air bathing" in their own home. Japan and ...

Kyoto Tower seen from the Kyoto Station building. The roof of Higashi Honganji temple can be seen lower left. The Yomiuri Shimbun KYOTO — I’ve heard that foreign tourists feel disappointed as soon as ...

The Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art's first anniversary exhibition, "Modern Architecture in Kyoto," opened on September 25th and will run until December 26th. The exhibition features a carefully ...

This Kyoto home in the ancient capital of Japan might not shout about its contemporary credentials – and rightly so, as this is a historical city with strict preservation rules when it comes to ...

In Kyoto, preserving history and cultural aesthetics goes beyond architecture—it even shapes the colors of signs and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's hard to imagine that this indoor play area for children with physical disabilities in Kyoto ...

Tatami mats, silk cushions, a Japanese garden…Starbucks’ new Kyoto coffeehouse has swapped the usual glass-and-metal facades for a renovated 100-year-old wooden Japanese townhouse. Opened on June 30 ...