Kyoto. The proud former capital of Japan, internationally famed as the place where you can still see Geisha and Maiko, drink real matcha in a traditional tea house, nibble on classic Japanese sweets ...

Amanohashidate is a breathtaking 3.6km-long natural sandbar stretching across Miyazu Bay in northern Kyoto Prefecture. Known as Japan's heavenly floating bridge, it is blanketed with pine trees and ...

The Japanese have long had a fondness for categorizing impressive features of the world around them into numbered lists. And in this enterprise, trios hold particular fascination. Thus, in addition to ...

The crowd at Amanohashidate is thicker than I'd anticipated, even for the start of the o-Bon holidays. I'd come here to see the Kyoto beyond Kyoto. That is, to see some of what Kyoto has to offer ...

We continue travelling by local buses from Kintai Bridge in Yamaguchi Prefecture to Amanohashidate in Kyoto. On the morning of the third day, we first head to the information centre in Okayama. We ...

We continue our two-day train journey along Kyoto Tango Railway’s Miyamai and Miyatoyo lines, which connect Kyoto Prefecture to Hyogo Prefecture. On the first night, we have to look for a restaurant ...