The Latest Breaking News from Kyoto

Milly Alcock and Norman Reedus have joined the cast of Charli XCX’s Takashi Miike film, currently known only as Untitled Kyoto Project.

You’re walking down a quiet street in Japan, surrounded by glowing signs and unfamiliar symbols, when one sentence in English suddenly stops you in your tracks. It almost makes sense, yet somehow says everything wrong. These moments are oddly charming and impossible to forget. While translation is meant to connect…

An influx of tourists to the Japanese city has caused authorities to increase overnight accommodation taxes

Japan's popularity continues to surge despite concerns of pollution, anti-social behaviour and 'human traffic jams'.

An ode to one of Japan's most alluring and oldest municipalities

One festival features the largest firework in the world, known as the ‘Yonshakudama’

Fears for August as Kyoto reaches 40C and Seoul has 22 nights above 25C, while eastern Australia enjoys snow

Japan sweltered in a new record temperature of 41.2C on Wednesday, with the mercury also hitting 40C in the ancient capital of Kyoto for the first time since observations began.

Nishijinori, the intricate weaving for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto, is getting a modern-day high-tech collaborator: artificial intelligence