Kyoto was the capital of Japan before Tokyo became the capital. Even before Kyoto was the capital, Nara was the capital of Japan. And here is the Toda-ji temple in Nara. Look at the size of the people walking up to the temple and you can get some kind of an idea of its size.…

Jizo-in is a Buddhist temple in Arashiyama, a residential district in the west of Kyoto. There is a small gate and then bamboo groves either side of a path that leads up to a small temple. Beyond that is a small house where visitors can sit and look out over the open side to a…

The Eikan-do temple (pronounced EEK-AN-DOUGH) is in Kyoto. It is a complex of traditional wooden buildings with little bridges connect them. Rather than describe it, let these photographs do the talking. The skill is in making nature seem to be twisting this way and that. You can imagine the way the wind and weather causes…