SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...

From Yusuhara to Tokyo, Japanese architecture enjoys pushing back the boundaries of what is possible. Temples of light, underground museums, forest stadiums: each creation becomes a manifesto.

On this episode of Journeys in Japan, American architect James Lambiasi visits a hot spring resort where the main street is lined with hotels built from timber; an ancient Buddhist temple where ...