Inspired by Kyoto, let's gather camellias using furoshiki, and make origami camellias following our easy how-to-guide.

Fall again, fair snow, onto the lingering drifts, and spread your cloak wide. We will see little of you when spring haze stands in the...

We had a wonderful gathering at our online JanuaryInJapan Book Club this January. Our topic was the fascinating short novel by Satoshi...

Discover Kyoto's Jidai Matsuri with our stunning illustrated guide by professional photographer Paul Moss.

Discover what it's like staying in a temple in Kyoto!

Walk with Cathy around beautiful Rikugien garden in Tokyo, in the footsteps of the samurai and his concubine who once lived there.

Machiya are the beautiful, traditional townhouses of Kyoto, made with tremendous craft and skill. In 2016 I stayed at the lovingly...

The peak of Mount Fuji is oblivious to time. What season does it take this to be that the falling snow should dapple it like a fawn? toki...

In preparation for our exciting interview and blog with the Kyoto geisha and maiko photographer John Paul Foster, I began to learn about...

The best among blossoms is the red plum, whether light or dark in colour. As for the cherry, the blossoms should be on slender branches,...

My Japan Journey Interview 5: Rachel: Kyoto travel sketchbook artist I met Rachel for the first time in Kyoto this summer, in a quieter...

So spring fled, summer blazed, and autumn winds began to blow- when, our eyes lifted heavenward toward the meeting of the Stars, we write...

Chigo, Yasaka Shrine Influences and Beginnings When I was in my early twenties, and without much experience of travel, I arrived with my...

It was almost three years to the day when we returned to Kyoto in November 2022. In the intervening time, when it was not possible to...