Japan saw 36.9 million international visitors in 2024, up 47.1% on the previous year, surpassing the 2019 record of 31.9 million, immediately before the pandemic put the brakes on leisure travel.

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Visitors looking for the "real Japan" may find it on a new long trail two hours from Tokyo that shows off the country's ...

While Spain's headline trail now attracts up to half a million pilgrims a year, its twin is often uncrowded and offers a peaceful route through forests and mountain scenery ...

“This is Hosshinmon-Oji,” says Tadaharu Mukai, my guide, “It means ‘gate ... into white clothes as part of a purification ritual. We enter the grounds. Behind a wooden torii stand three ...

On the 2nd-floor deck, a 120-meter-long ceiling display recreates the winter night sky with golden lights, pearl white and silver ornaments ... to experience both the elegance of wabi-sabi and ...

Past the torii gate, the path runs along the quiet seashore, with the blue sea stretching to the horizon. The island is composed of shell sediment built up when the area was under the sea ...

After signing Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and now Sasaki in the last 14 months, the Dodgers have established themselves as the destination for Japanese stars, Rowan Kavner wrote at Fox Sports.

WASHINGTON — Charged with driving a U-Haul into gate outside White House, a 20-year-old man from St. Louis was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday. Sal Varshith Kandula was arrested ...