Japan is considered to be one of the most spectacular places on earth. It is home to some marvelous attractions like palaces, temples, national parks, skyscrapers and shopping centres. However, like ...

A brief historical timeline of research on the Arashiyama macaques / Michael A. Huffman, Linda M. Fedigan, Paul L. Vasey and Jean-Baptiste Leca -- In search of the phantom monkeys (originally ...

NISHIKYO WARD, Kyoto — When we started researching this trip in 2017 and looked at Instagram photos we saw this amazing bamboo forest. It's located in Arashiyama on the outskirts of Kyoto, about 300 ...

Key Highlight: Arashiyama is a quaint neighborhood surrounded by bamboo trees and mountains on the western edge of Kyoto. Its star attraction is undoubtedly the bamboo grove, but the wooden Togetsukyo ...

It's hard to take a bad picture in the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove. The segmented green stalks grow as tall as 100 feet, and in ...

Arashiyama has been renowned for its blossoms since the thirteenth century, when Emperor Go-Saga built an imperial villa here and transplanted several hundred cherry trees from Mount Yoshino. It is ...

In Japan’s Sagano Bamboo Forest, on the outskirts of Kyoto, towering green stalks of the famously versatile plant sway in the wind, creaking eerily they collide and twist, leaves rustling. The sun ...

This story is part of the June 3 Edition of Good Weekend.See all 20 stories. WHY: Once a resort town for the Imperial family and Heian-era nobles, Arashiyama has a natural beauty that’s been captured ...

KYOTO -- The final edition of an illumination event in the Arashiyama district of Japan's ancient capital began on Dec. 10, with tourist spots such as the Togetsu Bridge and the Chikurin-no-Komichi ...