The landscape design was drawn by three ... The temple's southwestern location coincides with Saihoji Temple, the original Zen Buddhism garden in Japan. Its name is derived from the saying ...

Established in 725AD and fostered by the Maeda clan, the temple also displays Japan's largest cliff-carved ... is a surreal landscape designed to challenge perception, with disorientating paths ...

The 70km Shimanami Kaido, webbed with fishing harbours, hillside citrus orchards and historic shrines, is often regarded as one of the world's most incredible bike journeys.

In a nation as culturally rich as Japan, it can be hard to know how to spend your time there. Here are ten of our favorite ...

The temple head recalled he could not answer a call of nature there out of his deference to Buddhism. “I thought Japan would lose in the war, because bells that should ring out to make people ...

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 is an alluring destination because of its many juxtapositions. Neon skyscrapers tower over Shinto shrines, and salarymen ride the train next to Harajuku girls. The Land of the Rising Sun ...

On Jan. 27, under clear skies, tourists enjoyed taking photos beside the towering ice formations and strolling through the frosty landscape ... Taiwan and works in Japan, learned about Zao ...