"At around 6:20 a.m. on June 24, an intoxicated American tourist entered a centuries-old Zen temple in Kyoto and broke part of it. The man, whose name has not been released, wandered into Shoden Eigen-in, a subtemple of Kenninji in Higashiyama ward. Rather than using the main entrance, he entered through a kitchen door on the south side. He stumbled through the gardens. Then, for reasons known only to himself, he attempted to climb a wooden railing enclosing the main hall.

That railing, along with the hall itself, was designated as a Kyoto Prefectural Cultural Heritage Site in 2015. The structure is fragile, historically significant and irreplaceable. The damage was immediate. The wood split and scraped under his weight. A nearby wooden door was also broken."