Japan offers countless choices in its vast mountain ranges, but one of my favorite family hikes is only 90 minutes north of Kyoto. The mountain villages of Kibune and Kurama reside in neighboring ...

we aim to tackle a popular hiking route between the tiny rural hamlets of Kurama and Kibune, a quick half-hour railroad ride from Demachiyanagi. In a time of both misinformation and too much ...

With tens of millions of visitors descending on Japan's former capital each year ... river upstream and into a forested valley to Kibune, a rustic village of wooden ryokans and restaurants.

Depending on the amount of snowfall, the ancient shrine, tucked in the quaint village of Kibune, will illuminate ... solitude by a karesansui, or Japanese dry garden. These stylized arrangements ...

Japan’s Nikkatsu studio is pitching “River ... An employee is standing in front of the Kibune river at the back of the building when she is called back to work. But two minutes later ...

Jesse Mulligan enjoys lunch at a table set above a river at Beniya in Kibune, just outside of Kyoto. Visiting Kyoto? Forget the must-see and instead ‘just be’ in Japan’s popular, but still ...

Kibune’s mountain air has long provided respite ... It’s poor form to create a scene in Japan, but since he has opened the batting I can reciprocate. I summon my inner shogun and mutter ...