How to get there: Fly from Haneda Airport to Yamaguchi Ube Airport (more flight info here). The flight is about 1.5 hours, and it will take about another two hours to get the nearest station: the ...

This article explores Shinto shrines. A shrine (jinja) is a sacred place where kami live, and which show the power and nature of the kami. It's conventional in Japan to refer to Shinto shrines and ...

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima Prefecture--The famed “floating” torii gate of Itsukushimajinja shrine, a World Heritage site under repair, was revealed for the first time in about three and a half years.

Japan is dotted with bold archways that stand apart from the regular landscape. Some are more elaborate than others, but the basics remain: two pillars adjoined by one or two beams. Called torii, ...

Lots of sightseeing destinations in Japan come with some sort of qualifier. Akihabara should be on your itinerary if you like anime, for example, and you won’t want to miss the town of Hakone if ...

This page looks at the dramatic 'floating' torii (gate) of Itsukushima. The main building of Itsukushima shrine, in the town of Miyajima on Itsukushima Island, Hiroshima Prefecture, is believed to ...

The vermilion torii gates of Fushimi Inari Shrine are a major draw for foreign visitors to Japan, who ranked it the country’s top tourist spot in 2014 according to the travel site TripAdvisor. Foreign ...