HOTELS: Tokyo may be better known for its bright lights and busy streets, but Niki Cottrell finds a hotel rich in history and ...

The luxurious Hotel Chinzansō Tokyo, one of Japan’s most prestigious wedding venues, is built around a famous garden created in 1877 by the statesman Yamagata Aritomo. The garden, filled with flowers, ...

Every member of my immediate family has suffered embarrassment or celebrated triumphs – or both – at Tokyo Garden. The Appleton clan began frequenting the downtown Fresno restaurant in 1956, when my ...

When it comes to hospitality – known as omotenashi, an age-old reverence – you'll find that Japan's hotels and stays are top-notch, with a fine attention to detail and a deep-rooted sense of cultural ...

On the site where the swanky Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka was once a playground for the rich and famous, now stands a multi-complex facility called Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho. With its ...

TOKYO — Coming from the high-rise neon madness of Tokyo’s Shibuya neighborhood just one train stop away, simply walking through the neighborhood of Daikanyama may feel almost like being in a Zen ...

As we approach the end of October and the cold weather sets in, so, too, do the leaves of trees across the country transition from the bright green of summer to the bold reds, oranges, and yellows of ...

The center of Tokyo now looks more like a sea of yellow than a major metropolis. This week rapeseed flowers bloomed in the central district of Tokyo at the Hama-rikyu Gardens. Usually these flowers ...

A famed garden in Tokyo is battling the hordes of visitors who want to use the buildings on the site for model shoots, saying such photo opportunities are forbidden. The manager of Kyu-Iwasaki-tei ...

Patience. Understanding. Tranquility. This is what Tokyo-based “ultra-technologists” teamLab wants visitors to experience when they enter its new artwork, entitled “Floating Flower Garden; Flowers and ...