The western Japan city that hosts Himeji Castle proposed to the local assembly on Friday that it double or triple the World Heritage site's admission fees for nonresidents in 2026, scrapping the mayor ...

Himeji Castle, which was registered as Japan's first World Heritage site, is seen in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, in 2023. (Mainichi/Nobuya Muramoto) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions ...

KOBE (Japan), Sept 4 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- The Japanese city that hosts Himeji Castle is considering doubling or tripling admission fees for visitors who do not live in the local area, officials said on ...

TOKYO: Foreign tourists may have to pay six times more than locals to visit Himeji Castle, a Unesco World Cultural Heritage site in Japan’s Hyogo prefecture. Himeji mayor Hideyasu Kiyomoto said he is ...

Earlier this year, a number of popular attractions around Japan proposed raising prices to counter over-tourism and the weak yen. One of the most prominent destinations to consider charging higher ...

HIMEJI, Hyogo Prefecture--Hilltop Himeji Castle, the city’s pride and a World Cultural Heritage site, will be twinned with Schonbrunn Palace in Austria, city officials announced. The Vienna tie-up ...

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Foreign tourists may have to pay six times as much as locals to visit Himeji Castle, a Unesco World Cultural Heritage site in Japan’s Hyogo prefecture. Himeji Mayor Hideyasu Kiyomoto said during an ...