Togakushi Shrine comprises five distinct shrine buildings: Okusha, Chusha, Kuzuryusha, Hokosha and Hinomikosha. Each shrine honors different deities from Japan’s Shinto sect. Visitors often trek ...

Japan a land where ancient traditions coexist seamlessly with cutting-edge modernity has become one of the most intriguing ...

“It’s already a sense of crisis for us and the religious community,” said an official at Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, which oversees religious sites. Cases of temple or shrine ...

Over 800 years ago, Kamakura flourished as Japan’s shogunal ... are set up around the shrine, and in the center of the milieu of visitors performers conduct a host of ancient religious rituals ...

SEOUL--South Korea on Sunday protested Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine with "deep disappointment" and urged Japanese leaders to show repentance for the ...

There are endless urban centers to visit in Japan beyond Tokyo and Kyoto. To shift in a different direction from those two ...

Today, the shrine honours Izanami-no-Mikoto, the Japanese deity of creation ... to go into the depths of the ancient Mt Horaiji and discover a temple founded in 703AD that clings onto a rugged ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan ... Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, which were ...

There are about 40,000 Shinto shrines that are called “Hachimansha” or “Hachimangu” in Japan. These are headed by Usa Jingu ...

In the process, they were able to view several elegant temples of the state capital, which collectively constitute the historic space called the Ekamra Kshetra. However, they are unlikely to have ...

The sword was pulled from the attic decades ago, but a recent ceremonial cleaning revealed it was a priceless heirloom from the 12th century.

With Japan’s promulgation of a law strictly separating Buddhism and Shintoism in 1868, the temple ... ancient Chinese legends, are of particular note. The combination of the front shrine and ...