Nijo Castle in central Kyoto was certainly ostentatious ... Outside the palace is the lovely Ninomaru Palace Garden designed by famed landscaper and tea master Kobori Enshu. Recent visitors ...

KYOTO—One of the main buildings at Nijo-jo Castle here, a UNESCO World Heritage site, will reopen to the public on Sept. 1 after being closed for 17 years, the city government announced on June 17.

Organizers call Naked Garden One Kyoto a "next-generation ... which started on September 15 and runs through December 25. Nijo-jo, a castle with deep ties to the Tokugawa Shogunate, is one locale.