The birthplace of karate also holds a deeply rooted connection to spirituality and nature. Here’s how to plan a visit to this ...

This two-story wooden western-style building was built as an apartment for foreign residents in Kyu-kyoryuchi (”former foreign settlement”) in 1904. It was then reconstructed in Kitano. The building ...

John Westbrooke views a British Museum exhibition of “pictures of the floating world” Looking at Utagawa Hiroshige’s work, ...

Japan’s sidewalk restaurants, known as “yatai,” have almost entirely disappeared—except in Fukuoka, where they’ve undergone a ...