A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers.

Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in The air is crisp, the snow deep and undisturbed. The Japanese Alps tower ...

Creation legends and folk tales swirl like snow and leaves across the protected landscapes of Japan. This selection of four ...

The city of Kyoto is known as Japan's cultural and spiritual capital. It's for good reason: Kyoto has hundreds of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, some of which are associated with the country's ...

If you pray for love in Izumo, there's a good chance you'll be heard. Every year, eight million gods gather in this seaside ...

Shinto is the native religious tradition of Japan. I think it's easy to see visual signs of it throughout Japan, from the shrines (jinja) to the gates (torii). But what I was interested in finding out ...