The number of people visiting Japan hit record levels in 2024, but top ‘Golden Route’ destinations such as Kyoto and Osaka ...

Ken Johnson has been on a decade-long journey to find acceptance since his boy Torii Johnson's death during the Lindt cafe ...

There are countless fixed stars in the firmament, but Sei Shonagon (c.966-c.1025) named only the Pleiades star cluster and ...

While many of the city’s luxury hotels are packed with foreigners, staying at the Mitsui still delivered a strong Japanese ...

His father, Ken, was travelling around Japan and came across a beautiful island with a torii gate, used by the Japanese to symbolically mark the transition of the mundane to the sacred. “I had the ...

What a gorgeous red torii gate at the edge of the ocean cliff ... Suddenly, I heard a deep thud, like someone had pounded a huge Japanese drum, and with it, the earth under my feet and the ...

Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line the 2 ½ ... the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...

The gorgeous artwork is distinctly Japanese and relegates the English ... custom team and plan for each encounter you embark on. Torii gates cover a sacred mountain with defilement, and a brave ...

Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese ... lacquered torii gates that line the ...

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is a tough game to describe, and that’s the problem. Nobody is sure if they want to play an ...