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Yatsuhashi: Kyoto’s Most Popular Souvenir

Take a look in any souvenir shop in Kyoto and you will quickly see a trend. Shop after shop after

It seems that Kyoto has more temples in it than any other city in Japan. So many in fact that

Kyoto to full of shops and restaurants with hundreds of years of history. The city is also full of ghost

Fukuchiyama is the largest city in north Kansai, but not so many people know this city was once governed by

In cental Kyoto City is the 17th temple of Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, Rokuharamitsu-ji. Though it is a rather small temple,

Far off in the wilds of north Kyoto is one of the most mysterious places in Japan, Mount Kurama, and

A mere half hour from the center of Kyoto will take you up the chain of mountains that cradle the

Inari is one of the most popular gods in and outside of Japan. As the god of harvest, business, sake,