This is a tour of the Kiyomizu Dera Temple in Kyoto Japan. If you are looking for an impressive temple experience with a ...

First-time visitors to Japan face overwhelming choices about where to go in a country that could occupy years of travel. The ...

Tokyo, Japan--(Newsfile Corp. - August 21, 2025) - World Heritage Theatre in Japan has announced a guided mindfulness tour at Kofukuji Temple, a historic monument of Ancient Nara designated as a ...

EIHEIJI, Japan (Reuters) – Deep in a forest near Japan’s western shore, a 13th century Buddhist temple where Steve Jobs once dreamed of becoming a Zen monk has teamed up with a Tokyo skyscraper ...

The maneki-neko goes by many names. The waving cat, the lucky cat, the beckoning cat. There are even more variations in its meaning. It’s generally believed a lifted left paw invites success in ...

Travellers who explore famous religious sites in Tokyo, Kyoto or Osaka don’t realise their behaviour is closely monitored by these creepy ogres. Aussie travellers are lured to Japan not just by it ...

TOKYO (AP) — Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is ...

Now, there are numbers to back up its reputation as a world-favourite travel destination: Wanderlust’s readers have voted ...