Okayama Prefecture is said to be the birthplace of Momotaro, the protagonist of Japan’s most famous folktale. Several local ...

Open Ear features documentaries from producers across the world being rebroadcast by the BBC World Service. It originally aired as a 360 Documentary on ABC Radio National in Australia.

The shrine complex dates back to the eighth century ... It takes about three hours to make the trek up the mountain, and some recent visitors say that the hike is mildly strenuous, but almost ...

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, ...

According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, the two men were riding a snowmobile on Shrine Mountain around noon when an avalanche buried one of them. The second rider tried to use his ...

They then carried two portable shrines, each weighing nearly one ton, from the foot of a mountain to the shrine near its peak, at an altitude of about 380 meters. A high school student said she ...