Blog Tag - Kyoto

Kyoto: A Short Break in the Thousand-Year Capital
As Japan’s most beautiful city, and former capital of the Land of the Rising Sun for more than one thousand years, it’s hard to sum up the cultural...
Kyoto: The Tranquil Heart of Japan's Pre-Meiji Past
A two-hour ride west by bullet train, through brilliant, golden fields of barley, gives you time to decompress from the all-encompassing din of Tokyo...
Peking Man: Eyes Wide Shut
On my latest visa run, I found myself in the center of Kyoto, wandering the grounds of the old imperial palace. The day before I had visited...