Mitaki-dera is a popular destination for cherry blossom viewing in the spring ... Probably the number one reason people visit ...

If hiking is your goal, consider aiming for a mid-autumn visit—or April after you’ve experienced the country’s famous cherry blossom bloom. Buses run on the hour along the island’s ring road.

Steve Lee Hayes carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested on suspicion of property ...

A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a torii gate at a Tokyo shrine.

American tourist arrested for vandalizing Tokyo shrine highlights growing concerns over misbehavior among visitors as Japan ...

But now, Kanonji city has something new to offer: the “torii gate in the sky” of the “hongu” main building of Takayajinja shrine that sits atop 404-meter-high Mount Inazumiyama.

Hayes is suspected of using fingernails on his right hand to carve five letters of the Latin alphabet in a space measuring roughly 5 centimeters by 6 cm on a torii gate pillar at around 11:20 a.m ...

Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line the 2 ½-mile-long path up Mount Inari, where the shrine sits. Sometimes in dense rows and other times ...

Torii, although at first glance they appear to be simple structures, are a sacred gate or traditional arch that is usually placed at the entrance of Shinto shrines to mark the border between ...

The sisters from Chile shared a video to the account ‘mmgymsisters’ of Maria del Mar Perez Banus performing pull-ups on the red bars of a torii gate in Sapporo, Hokkaido, to the music of the ...

Photo: Han Cheung, Taipei Times The residents used the gravestones as walkways and building material, and hung their laundry atop the two torii gates, which in Shintoism marks the boundary between the ...