Historic architecture: Tomonoura, a historic village in Hiroshima prefecture overlooking the Seto Inland Sea for more than 1,400 years, is home to about 280 buildings that date back to the Edo Period.

Another surprise from "old Japan" awaits me halfway along the walk from Tsumago to Magome. In a 250-year-old Edo-period building, shopkeeper Akihiko Matsubara pours me a cup of green tea and tells ...

The Floating World” transports visitors to a time when Japan was emerging from the feudal era and modern cities were booming.

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in seventeenth-century Japan by Dr Satona Suzuki and comedian Ahir Shah to learn all about the Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate. Show more In this ...

There were two akusho (bad places) in Edo Japan (1603-1867). Sometimes “bad” means “good.” Edo culture without its theaters and yūkaku (erotic pleasure quarters) is scarcely thinkable ...

Beth Reiber, CNN Tomonoura, Japan (CNN) — Shopkeeper Yuri Koshimizu is kind enough to explain why a small, rudimentary box hangs from the ceiling, high above an assortment of homeishu (medicinal ...

Edo Japan (Radio Edit) You're Dead to Me. Greg Jenner is joined in 17th-Century Japan by Dr Satona Suzuki and comedian Ahir Shah to learn all about the Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate.