How to tour the Imperial Palace Tours of the palace are offered twice a day in both English and Japanese Tuesday through Saturday at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The 75-minute tours are free, but ...

A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace ... and the Imperial Garden. Recent visitors, who called the park fascinating, suggest giving yourself plenty of time to tour and buying tickets ...

Emperor Naruhito composed a poem about the aspirations of children he has met around Japan for the annual New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 22. The event’s theme th ...

Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday. Some shouted banzai — “live long” — while others waved ...

Tokyo — Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito's brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said.