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Here's How to See One of Japan's Most Iconic Cities Like a Local—Including Stops at Tea Houses, Hot Springs, and a 1,000-year-old Temple
Here's what you need to know before planning a trip to Kyoto, Japan.
Japan's Best Food Destination Is Less Than 2 Hours From Tokyo—and It Has a Cat Island, Samurai History, and Bubbling Mountain Hot Springs
Home to less than 10 percent of the population, it’s an outdoor lover’s dream, with cloud-piercing peaks, lakes, dense ...
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Art Collective teamLab to Open New Museum, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto on October 7, 2025
KYOTO, Japan-- ( BUSINESS WIRE )-- teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, art collective teamLab’s permanent art museum, is set to open in Minami-ku, Kyoto, as part of the Kyoto Station Southeast Area Project on ...
80 years after the atomic bomb: A photo gallery from Hiroshima
A bird flies past the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Monday, August 4, 2025 as Japan will mark 80th anniversary of the WWII U ...
Three Escapes to Get That Fall Foliage Fix
Tired of the usual fall trips? Discover 3 unique and luxurious destinations for incredible fall foliage, from the rugged ...
Want a Different Kind of Work Trip? Try a Robot Hotel
At Japan’s Henn na Hotels droids pretty much run the show, from greeting you at the door to adjusting the temperature.
‘This can’t happen again’: NC farm boy dropped atomic bomb on Japan 80 years ago
Bombardier Tom Ferebee talked with The Charlotte Observer for the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
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Japanese Students’ Pontic Greek Dance Goes Viral on TikTok
A video showing a group of Japanese students from Kyoto University performing a traditional Pontic Greek dance has gone viral ...
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How to Spend 2 Days in Kyoto: Itinerary Guide For First-Time Visitors
With only two days here, I felt like that was just enough time to scratch the surface of Kyoto. I had a simple itinerary that ...
I’ve Lived in Japan for 20 Years—and These Are 10 Common Mistakes I See Tourists Make
Visiting a hot spring or sento public bath is a literal immersion in a bathing culture that has lasted more than a millennium ...
A manga artist from Kyoto is winning praise for her delicate drawings of Goa’s stately mansions
In 1990, when Japanese manga artist Akeru Barros Pereira visited her husband’s ancestral village of Cansaulim in Goa, she was ...
Flesh hung like ribbons from bones…ghostly figures collapsed, never to rise – inside horrors of WW2 atomic bomb
IT was the day that changed the world for ever – when the first atomic bomb brought ­Armageddon to Japan.  Oscar-winning 2023 film Oppenheimer tells how the world’s most destructive weapon ...