Designed by renowned Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma, the Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto Hotel is thoughtfully designed as a sanctuary situated at the boundary between the historic city and the bamboo ...

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The "ethereal beauty" of classical Japanese Noh theatre informed Kengo Kuma and Associates' design for the Banyan Tree hotel ...

It’s 40 years since Anita Brookner won the Booker Prize for her slender novel Hotel du Lac. The awards were televised back ...

Get ready for the 2025 travel season, with the most anticipated luxury hotel openings of 2025, featuring standout new ...

Get ready for the 2025 travel season, with the most anticipated luxury hotel openings of 2025, featuring standout new ...

Japan's social media-influenced youth have begun romanticizing an unknown vintage past as old-fashioned Showa-era cafes, ...

Tomofusa Uesugi, a research fellow at the Kyoto National Museum in the ancient capital’s Higashiyama Ward, which recently uncovered the lost half, explained what the novel meant to people of the ...

Kaii Higashiyama was a Japanese artist known for his nihonga style paintings that often depicted nature. Born in 1908 in Yokohama, Japan, he later lived in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan. He was educated at ...