The route, known as the Shikoku Henro, includes 88 temples where Kukai -- the founder of Japan's Shingon school of Buddhism, posthumously known as Kobo Daishi -- is believed to have trained during ...

Divided into the four prefectures of Kagawa, Ehime, Tokushima and Kochi, Shikoku can be reached by air, train, bus or ferry from Japan's major cities. With its 88 temples and sacred sites ...

TOKUSHIMA—David Moreton has for years served as a messenger of the cultural appeal of a Buddhist pilgrimage of 88 temples across the island of Shikoku. A historian from Canada, Moreton has ...

Recent years, however, have seen a surge in visitors who have come to embark on the Shikoku 88-Temple Pilgrimage. David Moreton is among the foreign-born devotees of the historic route ...

The tendency of people to work well into their retirement ages is threatening the future of the sacred pilgrimage route of 88 temples on Shikoku island, tourism officials say. Tackling sections of ...