Travel well in Osaka, Koyasan and Nara with our ultimate Japan travel guide! We spent a few incredible days exploring Japan’s Kansai region, unearthing some of the very best things to see, do and eat.

Koyasan is a small mountainside town in Wakayama filled with picturesque temples. For those who make the 90-minute rail journey south from Osaka, leaving the city behind for increasingly deep ...

It takes about five hours to reach Koyasan from Tokyo, via Shinkansen to Shin-Osaka with transfers to local lines and the cable car.

In a nation as culturally rich as Japan, it can be hard to know how to spend your time there. Here are ten of our favorite ...

Koyasan is one of those places in Japan where you just have to go. Stay overnight in a “ shukubo ” temple lodging and cleanse your soul with vegetarian Buddhist cuisine. Kukai will speak to you.

KOYA, Wakayama Prefecture--For the well-heeled tourist who wants a heavenly experience, a temple lodging facility at Mount Koyasan awaits to pamper them. Rengejo-in here has been named among the ...