Kanga-an, a former Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto has been transformed into a meeting events venue to meet the growing demand for host venues in the city, and is one of the latest venues to join the Kyoto Convention Bureau. Renovated and converted into a restaurant to maintain the beauty and sublime peacefulness of the original building the former temple is well known for its vegetarian gastronomy. Kyoto is consistently ranked as Japan's second most popular city for meetings, conferences and events - and is increasingly the number-one choice for company incentive travel. Tokyo is just over two hours away on the fastest bullet train in Japan and places as far as Hiroshima are also comfortable daytrips.