It takes about three hours to make the trek up the mountain, and some recent ... For more information, visit the Fushimi Inari Shrine's website. PERFECT KYOTO 1-Day Bus Tour (7806 reviews) Private ...

YAWATA, Kyoto Prefecture--Iwashimizu Hachimangu shrine here is a government-designated national treasure, but it is also home to a relatively unknown monument dedicated to Thomas Edison (1847-1931).

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 ...

While crowded Kyoto continues to suffer from overtourism, several of Japan’s ancient and soulful sights on the nearby Kii Peninsula, only an hour away, ...

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 ...

While crowded Kyoto continues to suffer from ... a form of ascetic mountain worship. The waterfall’s Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine and its picturesque, three-story Seigantoji temple reopened ...

Mount Yoshino is located within Yoshino-Kumano National Park, about 55 miles southeast of Osaka, 70 miles south of Kyoto ... and Yoshimizu Shrine, while the Kami section of the mountain tends ...