Such graveyards, where trees mark the remains instead of gravestones, have grown in popularity, and not just in Kyoto, which has at least five sub-temples offering the service. Tree burials are ...

Torin-in Temple in Kyoto City is not open to the public as a rule, but the priests make an exception for several days in June when the sal trees are in bloom. One of Japan's most famous pieces of ...

Japan has recorded its warmest autumn since records began 126 years ago, the weather agency said, delaying the country's ...

KYOTO--Unseasonably high temperatures are playing havoc with the autumn foliage season that draws hordes of visitors to Kyoto ...

"In Kyoto, records of the timing of celebrations ... "I have searched and collected the phenological data for full flowering date of cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) from many diaries and ...