A former temple facility stands in a forested area on Mount Koyasan in Wakayama Prefecture, its exterior walls peeling off and cardboard boxes piled up inside. This was the base of operations for ...

We’ve spent 5 weeks traveling around Japan in the spring and fall seasons, and during both trips we made sure to visit Nara ...

Inside, just as in Jokhang ... Mongolians and others living in Japan visit the temple as a place of spiritual comfort, and ...

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 ...

Japan’s annual ritual of “mame-maki ... Like rice, soybeans are considered a symbol of vitality and purity. Inside the Zojoji temple in Tokyo, a number of people including sumo wrestlers ...