KYOTO—The Aoi Festival, one of this city’s three major festivals, was held on May 15, with about 500 people dressed in lavish period costumes parading through the streets of the ancient capital. The ...

In July, Kyoto celebrates the historic Gion Matsuri festival, one of Japan’s most famous and long-running traditions. With origins dating back to 869, the event draws more than one million people each ...

Formerly Japan's capital for over a millennium, Kyoto is full of famous temples, shrines, and places of note that appear in classic literature. Many of these places are famous for seeing Kyoto cherry ...

People watch a float illuminated by lanterns during the Gion Festival in Kyoto, Japan, on July 23, 2024. The Gion Festival, which lasts throughout the entire month of July, is an annual traditional ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Kyoto news every morning. Japanese women dressed in traditional costumes walk in the procession of the Aoi Festival at the Imperial ...

Every July tourists flock to the Gion Festival in Kyoto for the chance to see a parade of sumptuously decorated floats pass through the heart of the city. Nippon.com takes a look at the history and ...

"Yamahoko" floats parade in Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward in the "saki-matsuri" event of the Gion Festival on July 17, 2022. (Mainichi/Kazuki Yamazaki) The Gion Festival yamahoko float federation's ...

KYOTO--Organizers of one of Kyoto’s most eagerly anticipated summer festivals announced that the tradition of bonfires on city mountainsides will be held in full next month for the first time in three ...

The Gion Festival, which celebrates the Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, is touted as the biggest festival in Japan – and for a country as rife with festivals as this one, it's really saying something. Part of ...

The Chrysanthemum Festival to celebrate the ninth day of the ninth month will be held at several temples and shrines in Kyoto. One event will start at 10 a.m. at ...