KYOTO—One of the main buildings at Nijo-jo Castle here, a UNESCO World Heritage site, will reopen to the public on Sept. 1 after being closed for 17 years, the city government announced on June 17.

Kyoto has many shrines, temples and traditional structures, spurring people to place special value on old building materials over the centuries. After the Middle Ages, merchants at the center of ...

KYOTO--A cafe that opened in a historic building that used to be the home of the prefectural government here reckons it has all the ingredients to be regarded as “instagrammable.” Situated in ...

An early pioneering work of domestic architectural modernism with exposed concrete blocks and geometric designs stands along ...

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The Park Hyatt Kyoto’s several buildings are connected with dimly lit corridors separated by Japanese Shoji screens, amid a ...

Fumihiko Sano Studio recreated a lost traditional atmosphere in a refurbished building in Kyoto by using cedar wood as one of the main materials for the project. Open spaces and some elements of ...