The Latest Breaking News from Kyoto

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…

Hundreds joined the annual year-end clean at Kyoto's Higashi-Honganji and Nishi-Honganji temples, a 500-year-old tradition to prepare for the New Year.

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

I spent 48 hours in Osaka and Kyoto this weekend. I had a lot to cram into this short space of time but it was one of the best weekends for photography I've had in a while.