One of Miami Beach’s most luxurious hotels is getting a swanky new restaurant. Already home to the Asian hot spot Jaya and ...

This is not your ordinary hotel. Not long ago, this centuries-old temple, resting serenely in Japan’s ancient capital, was showing its age. Its devotees have been growing older and dwindling in ...

Benmou Suzuki's dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly ...

A surge in religious properties coming up for sale has Japanese authorities worried that prospective buyers are not ...

Branch out beyond Tokyo’s city limits with a trio of easy and enjoyable day trips that take you to castles, beaches, temples ...

In the opposite direction, across the Kamo River, the Higashiyama Ward to Kyoto’s east has emerged as a high-end hotel hot ...

Tokyo Tatemono Co Ltd and Hilton Japan, Korea & Micronesia Region have opened the Hilton Kyoto, the first hotel in Kyoto ...

As the country’s population declines and religious disaffection grows, religious sites are increasingly targeted for the tax ...

The concept of a love hotel is not unique to Japan. The modern term itself comes from Hotel Love, the first of this kind, which opened in Osaka in 1968. It was soon followed by thousands of other love ...

(Mainichi/Kohei Shinkai) TOYOTA, Aichi -- This June, Italian writer Dacia Maraini visited Kosaiji temple of the Soto Zen Buddhist school in this central Japan city. Wearing sunglasses, she climbed ...

The robot appeared in the hotel hallway as if out of nowhere, R2D2-sized, silently rolling, on a mission of undetermined ...

Japan loves its towers, and the Sapporo TV Tower was an ideal vantage point to get the lay of the land. From here we spotted ...