Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto is a one-of-a-kind stay in the iconic Japanese city. As Japan continues to be a popular ...

When it came to Kyoto, Oshima Hiroshi was Steve Jobs' man ... a shop near the Tawaraya ryokan, where he always stayed during his visits. "I once tried taking him to a different place but he ...

"There isn't a huge upswell of opposition that would involve the industry as a whole," said Shigeki Kitahara, advisor to the Kyoto Prefecture Ryokan Association, an industry group of hotels and inns.

Nestled in the hills of the city’s Higashiyama ward, a short walk from the famous Kiyomizu-dera Temple, the brand’s first Japanese outpost is a modern-day update of the classic ryokan inn.

Post-Covid-19 “revenge travel” and the weakest yen in decades have fuelled a tourism boom in Japan, with visitor numbers for 2024 looking certain to exceed 2019’s record of 31.9 million.