8 New Year at Heian Jingu Shrine Cathy Cawood See kimonos, buy a snack from a food stall, and check your fortune for the New Year at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto.
11 New Year stalls at Fushimi Inari Cathy Cawood Many food stalls spring up around Fushimi Inari at New Year, selling delicious snacks to the crowds of New Year visitors.
10 Lights in the Port Town of Kobe Takako Sakamoto Beautiful night-time lights of the exotic port town of Kobe make me yearn for unknown foreign countries.
10 Snow at Rokusho Shrine Cathy Cawood Snow brought extra beauty to this local Yamashina shrine at the start of a trail into the Higashiyama Hills in Kyoto.
14 Culture Kizakura Kappa Museum Cathy Cawood Sake Brewery in Fushimi, Kyoto has a small museum with Japanese water goblin artifacts and a collection of artwork featuring the..
9 Illuminated Underground Malls Takako Sakamoto Strolling around underground malls of Osaka and Hankyu Umeda Department Store concourses after work at Christmas time.
9 A Painting of Autumn Leaves Takako Sakamoto Enjoy the splendid Garden of Jugyu at Enkoji Temple in Rakuhoku, Kyoto, at their special early morning openings during the peak..
9 Soothing Scenery of Enkoji Takako Sakamoto Beautiful autumn leaves surround the belfry, and the smiling faces of adorable jizo statues bring happiness to visitors of Enkoji..