Osaka is hosting the massive Expo 2025 from April to October, but there are far more reasons to visit this restless city where little seems impossible.

Explore the evolution of architecture from Expo '70 to 2025, highlighting sustainability and global design at Osaka's ...

Yao Li captures Expo 2025 Osaka, its state-of-the art pavilions and carnival-like atmosphere in a series of stunning photographs ...

After emerging from cloistered isolation in 1865, following more than 200 years of violent harassment by Japan’s insular ...

Osaka's Grand Ring, the world's largest wooden structure, showcasing innovative architecture and diverse global themes.

On the rural islands off the coast of Japan, a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links ...

The 150-plus-island archipelago has drawn megacity transplants seeking a more relaxed pace of life in tune with the rhythms ...

With a history that stretches back to 727 AD, Katsuo-ji is one of Osaka's oldest and most revered temples. A 90-minute train journey from Osaka Station, this Buddhist sanctuary sits on roughly 65 ...

A gridded wooden structure formed using traditional joinery makes up The Grand Ring, which Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects has used to encircle the Expo 2025 Osaka in Japan. At 61,035 ...

Ziggurat of Ur Existing for over 4,000 years, the Ziggurat of Ur, standing 30 meters tall in Iraq, initially served as a temple to worship the Mesopotamian moon god, Nanna. The historical structure ..

JAPAN – Popular Japanese cities ... on the prowl for seafood at Kuromon Ichiba Market in Osaka or admiring autumn leaves at Buddhist temple Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto, there is almost always a ...

Some of the highlights to look out for on your night walk at this historic temple include a sea of blue clouds appearing to float over the Daioen, one of the Japan’s most revered dry landscape ...