A room in Nijo-jo Castle, a World Heritage site in Kyoto City, will be opened to the public for the first time early next month. The "Ohiroma Chodai-no-ma," located inside the Ninomaru-goten ...

Nijo Castle in central Kyoto was certainly ostentatious ... not for defense. Even the palace's moat and inner wall stood not as defensive structures, but rather as examples of the shogun's ...

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.

The Oshoin is as large as the 3,300-square-meter Ninomaru Palace of Nijo Castle in Kyoto ... outside the Oshoin, at the castle’s stone wall close to the inner moat, and near Sannomaru Square ...