While crowded Kyoto continues to suffer from overtourism, several of Japan ... The waterfall’s Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine and its picturesque, three-story Seigantoji temple reopened in December ...

When you're done taking in the temple's surrounding beauty, you are invited to drink from the Otowa Waterfall, which gave the temple its name (kiyomizu means "pure water"). The waterfall is ...

However, Buseoksa temple in South Chungcheong province, located in west-central South Korea, claimed that the statue was looted in the 14th century by Japanese “wako” pirates.