SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...

Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers with its stunning natural scenery, which visitors say is best viewed from the verandah off the temple's main building.

Shikoku is the smallest of Japan's four main islands, but it delivers big on opportunities to get to know Japan's spiritual side ... the mountain three times during his lifetime. Unpenji (Temple ...

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be cured. Its main object of worship is a statue of the 11-faced ...

Accompanied by mountain guides, Japan-based writer Ally ... says Bunting. On the other side of Japan, the sacred Koyasan region of the Wakayama Prefecture is a Unesco World Heritage site.

Mount Yoshino in Yoshino-Kumano National Park is considered one of the best places to view cherry blossoms in Japan ... The mountain is dotted with age-old shrines and temples, along with miles ...

PHUKET (The Nation Thailand/ANN): The Phuket monastic chief on Sunday ordered a temple on top of a mountain in Tambon Karon of Muang district to halt all construction after a landslide killed 13 ...