This city has grown in popularity over the years, to the point some of its areas are seemingly struggling to cope with ...

The Japan city of Kyoto is planning to increase its hotel tax rates from next year, with guests at hotels and other accommodation types paying as much as JPY10,000 per person per night on a sliding ...

KYOTO--The Kyoto municipal government plans to impose a tax on vacant homes to prevent young people from fleeing the city due to skyrocketing apartment prices. Demand for Kyoto properties ...

The top honor comes with some irony in a year when foreign tourism practically vanished, but it also offers some hope for the city’s tourist industry. Kyoto has struggled during the pandemic as ...

Kyoto’s Sannenzaka Street is one of the city’s most popular attractions, with Tripadvisor reviews describing it as ‘beautiful’ and ‘serene’. However, despite its charm, many visitors have taken issue ...

By making virtual tours accessible and jazzing up the historic site, Kyoto hopes to encourage people to visit the city in person, but not like in the past. The city of Kyoto was a tourist ...

But worse than that, residents had started to complain about their city. Tourists were often loud and disrespectful, and there were too many of them. Kyoto didn't want to go back to that after the ...

The green and white Kyoto City Buses hit most of the city's major sites, but even better are the Raku Buses (routes 100, 101 and 102), operated by the Kyoto City Bus. Raku Buses, which leave from ...