Gion Matsuri, Kyoto: a thousand-year-old tradition and the most famous matsuri Kyoto's Gion Matsuri, a star among Japanese ...

Nara is a city located in the Kansai region of Japan, near Kyoto and Osaka. It was the first permanent capital of Japan, ...

Honestly, every season is a delight when you’re in Japan. Whether its cherry blossoms on your mind or snow monkeys soaking in ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Japanese culture was in Salt Lake City's spotlight. Thousands of people came together in the heart of ...

The park is one of Japan’s top destinations for wisteria, boasting 350 trees that bloom from mid-April to mid-May. The stunning flowers, which dangle from wooden trellises, come in a riot of ...

TOKYO: A shrine in Japan that hosts a “naked man ... not be allowed to participate in the crescendo of the festival that it is most famous for – a rough-and-tumble scrum in which men ...

Morioka is perhaps most famous for its noodle-eating challenge and a popular summer festival. But inside its train station awaits one of Japan’s most curious treasures. A spectacle to get the ...

Former Japanese economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura meets the press after offering prayers at war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo during its three-day spring festival on April 23, 2025.

TAKIZAWA, Iwate -- This north Japan city is crowdfunding using the "hometown tax" donation system to keep an ancient early-summer draft horse festival going, and offering big donors the chance to ...