There are no shrines to be honored near the direct entrance of Nishinomiya Shrine, but they are all fairly close to one ...

Overseeing more than 3000 Kumano shrines in Japan, it is a doyen of religion ... the Kumano Kodo picture scroll procession takes place on November 3 to reenact the imperial pilgrimage, complete ...

Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime legacy in East Asia and a flashpoint for regional tension. Here is ...

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

There's even a shrine that appears to 'float on water'. Our picture tour of Japan will take you to lesser ... to towering ...

Aiko graduated from the university on March 20 and will begin working next month at the Japanese Red Cross Society in Tokyo. This was Aiko’s second visit to the shrine since 2014, when she and ...