The oldest religious site in Tokyo is also its most visited. The Senso-ji Temple sees about 30 million annual visitors and its inception dates all the way back to year 628. Despite its claim to ...

Katsuo-ji offers visitors two different types of Darumas: the Kachi-Daruma, the classic doll known as “the winning Daruma” which is used to set a specific goal; or the Daruma-Mikuji, known as “the ...

According to the education board, it is bigger than the 81-cm statue in Saihoji temple in Kyoto’s Sakyo ... as well as crescent-shaped eyes. The statue is wearing a traditional formal court ...

In 1941, when the Japanese government was ... His grandfather erected a torpedo-shaped monument to commemorate injured military personnel on the temple grounds, and readily provided the bell ...