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A limited express sightseeing bus arrives at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward on June 1, 2024. (Mainichi/Kazuki Yamazaki) KYOTO -- The city of Kyoto has started operating limited express ...

Passengers check information about train delays at JR Kyoto Station in Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward at 10:39 a.m. on April 12, 2025. (Mainichi/Saki Hidaka) A worker at JR Kyoto Station reported a suspicious ...

KYOTO--In a sign of the times, a medical clinic that offers services in 31 languages has opened in this historic city overrun with foreign tourists. The clinic is in a hotel directly connected to JR ...

KYOTO, Japan — For something different on a Saturday, I decided to take the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto, to see a part of Japan I’d never seen before. According to Google Maps, the distance ...

Ever since Japan reopened to the world after the pandemic, the country has seen a massive influx of tourists, especially in popular cities like Tokyo and Kyoto. Kyoto, in particular, seems to be ...

The pioneering digital art collective TeamLab will open a new permanent museum, TeamLab Biovortex Kyoto, near Kyoto Station on October 7. With ticket sales already underway, part of the exhibition was ...

Some of Kyoto's top attractions and temples aren’t accessible by train or subway, leaving visitors to rely on the city’s public buses. With Kyoto experiencing a record number of tourists, particularly ...

KYOTO—A sign on a train platform directs visitors to “The Future,” a pink-colored venue filled with cuteness that has made history on an abandoned railway line here. The Future Train restaurant, built ...