Shoden-ji is a quiet Rinzai Zen temple hidden in Kyoto's northern suburbs, famed for a blood-stained ceiling and a rock garden that enchanted David Bowie. Founded in 1282, the temple's main hall was ...

KYOTO—The oldest Zen temple in Japan now has a way to help its visitors find relief and reflect on how people in the past ...

Kōdaiji, a temple in Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward, is the final resting place of Kita-no-Mandokoro, the widow of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. A magnificent lone shidare-zakura, or weeping cherry tree ...

Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, is home to the country’s most renowned classical gardens. Toby Musgrave contemplates six of the finest.

Moss enthusiasts, this one's for you. JR Tokai Tours has been offering its oddly specific 'Kyoto Moss Tour Passport' since July, but if you haven't gotten yours yet, there's still time – the ¥1,000 ...

The gardens of Japan have graced both landscape and life for over a thousand years. Regarded as works of art, they lend insight into the nation’s history and culture.

The ancient Zen gardens of Kyoto, the Japanese city made famous for a landmark treaty on tackling climate change, are dying because of global warming.

Built in 1895 to mark 1,100 years since Kyoto was made the ancient capital of Heian-Kyo, Heian Jingu's gorgeous garden - designed by Ogawa Jihei, who created the first iterations of the modern ...

Israeli photographer Ori Gersht presents his first major London gallery show at Ben Brown Fine Arts, debuting ’Floating World’, a new project exploring the ancient gardens in Buddhist Zen temples in ...

This long-time Kyoto resident and Japanese garden expert advises visitors to take the imperial city slowly.