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The Place That Started It All: A Tokyo Garden Wedding

A Tokyo garden wedding at a house built in 1920, a morning floating above Shinjuku at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, a shrine…

They said their vows in Jinya's garden, beside the camphor tree Hayao Miyazaki played under as a child. The garden keeps what…

Already married, they came to Mount Fuji with nothing left to organise. A torii built for honouring the mountain from afar, silver…

A merchant from the far north built a house in Tokyo in 1920 and asked a shrine carpenter to make it. A…

The rain stayed all day, and by evening they wanted to speak their vows beneath it. At Wakayama Farm, the forest slowly…

Seven moments mattered enough for the couple to name them before the wedding, and every one involved another person. Around those moments…

Jinya, in Tsurumaki Onsen, began as a villa for receiving guests, on ground that was once a samurai's camp. This couple were…

Japan's most formal tea meal is named after hunger. What's really served at a wedding in Japan, which rituals at the table…

Two of her oldest friends had travelled Tokyo with her nearly a decade earlier. They came back as her bridesmaids, among seventy-three…

Their friend announced two sacred moments: the sharing of sake, and a raffle. From a garden ceremony at Jinya to a night…

The river once carried timber and sweet potatoes towards Edo; on this spring afternoon, it carried two newlyweds beneath a tunnel of…