Some of the most famous landmarks in Japan include Mount Fuji, Tokyo Tower, Shibuya Crossing, Sensoji Temple, Fushimi Inari ...

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 ...

Travelers can also see shrines and temples, enjoy miles of hiking ... most iconic places to participate in hanami in Japan. The five-mile-long mountain ridge that encompasses Mount Yoshino is ...

In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s largest Buddhist group readily handed over its temple bells for the ...

Ohta-kun, Futa, Elf, Cowcow ... are four of the sixteen cats that live on the grounds of a temple at the foot of the mountains of Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture. The former head priest began ...

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