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 ...

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 ...

It's also home to Japan's most iconic cultural city, Kyoto, with its numerous temples, bamboo forests, and traditional tea houses. However, there is another standout destination in Kansai that ...

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 ...

According to The Sankei Shimbun, this building was one of the largest of its kind in the country of Japan. The remains were found at the site of Yamashiro Kokubunji Temple, built in the southern ...