“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

A new building inspired by an ancient Japan palace was recently completed here at Manyo Botanical Garden on the grounds of the iconic Kasugata･･･ ...

In the dark of night, completely empty, we explore the gates of Kyoto's Fushimi inari Shrine. While its famously said to have 10,000 torii gates that wind up the mountain, the real number is north of ...

Modi, accompanied by Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, also visited the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi temple and paid respects at the revered Buddhist shrine in Anuradhapura, a spiritual city ...

A long-ago spiritual heyday reveals itself in mountains, forest and shrines.

This location has four smaller shrines. The first one is right in the middle of the complex, while the second is at the Torii gate in the north. The third can be found at the end of the cemetery, and ...

destroying one of its torii gates that rises out of the bay waters adjacent to the shrine. In the years since, though, the Nagasaki Prefecture Shinto shrine which served as a model for one of the ...

We'll also visit Kasuga Shrine (Kasuga-taisha), a Shinto shrine dedicated to protecting the city ... Inari shrine in Kyoto will immediately recognize Kasuga shrine’s orange torii gates. Our Nara tour ...

The gathering place for the cats is a small Shinto shrine in the resort town of Ushimado in southern Japan, surrounded by cherry trees and high up on the edge of a bay. The steps lead down to a ...

A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was fatally shot in broad daylight by unidentified shooters at Kanke Chowk in Ranchi, Jharkhand, triggering protests in the city. Anil Tiger Mahto, a former ...

Pilgrims have been pouring into a medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest – Carlo Acutis, the first millennial ...