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 ...

HIMEJI, Hyogo Prefecture--Out-of-towners and overseas visitors to Himeji Castle will be charged more than double what residents here pay to visit the World Heritage site from next year. City ...

While traveling through Japan in May, I stumbled upon the annual Himeji Castle Festival. One of the city’s significant events is a multi-day celebration of the samurai heritage and culture here. Even ...

The Himeji municipal government said Friday that it will raise the admission fee for its castle — a UNESCO World Heritage site — for people from outside the city. The city will now charge visitors who ...

Himeji Castle, one of Japan's first four UNESCO World Heritage sites, is pictured in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, in 2023. (Mainichi/Nobuya Muramoto) HIMEJI, Hyogo -- A ticket to the famously ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan is a destination where there's no shortage of landmarks and breathtaking landscapes — and it's actually quite affordable if you avoid its capital city, Tokyo. While Tokyo dazzles with neon ...