KYOTO--A New Year’s ceremonial event highlighted by a card-snatching game was held for the first time in three years at Yasakajinja shrine here on Jan. 3. Dressed in the traditional costume of ...

KYOTO--A ceremonial event to mark the New Year ... of the popular “karuta” card-snatching game at Yasakajinja shrine here. While the first half of a Hyakunin-isshu “waka” poem was ...

A bout 700 feet from Zambezi National Park and less than a 10-minute drive to Mosi-oa-Tunya, a.k.a. Victoria Falls, one of ...

As far as Shinto shrines go (there are about 400 in Kyoto), this one is pretty special ... It takes about three hours to make the trek up the mountain, and some recent visitors say that the ...

Mount Yoshino offers a good (and beautiful) reason to get out of Tokyo and Kyoto and venture off the beaten path.

Fushimi Inari Taisha is famous for the vermillion shrine gates that line mountain paths. As the head Inari shrine, it has 30,000 subordinate shrines throughout Japan. Since its foundation in 711 ...

To experience the best of the city's fascinating temples, shrines and cultural attractions this year, consider this your ultimate Kyoto guide and start mapping out your trip. [See: 10 Places to ...

One of the best options in Kyoto is Yuzuya Ryokan. Located right next to Yasaka Shrine, you will find yourself in the atmosphere of a mountain village outside an ancient city from the moment you ...

Mount Yoshino is located within Yoshino-Kumano National Park, about 55 miles southeast of Osaka, 70 miles south of Kyoto, and 300 miles southwest of Tokyo ... But it’s not just the cherry blossoms ...