Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 10, 2025, shows Kinkaku-ji, or the Golden Pavilion temple, dusted with snow in the western Japan city of Kyoto.

To be clear, Kinkakuji is a three-story pavilion on the grounds of the Rokuonji temple complex. I don’t mean any disrespect, but the architecture is a bit like Tsutenkaku in Osaka--the Eiffel ...

The Hojo hall of Rokuonji temple, commonly known as Kinkakuji temple with its famed golden pavilion, will be open to the public for the first time in nine years. Nishi Hongwanji temple will ...