At Katsuo-ji Temple, Daruma dolls watch from every corner. They peer between tree branches, cluster around altars, and dot winding pathways, flashes of bright red among the hillside forest. The iconic ...

Japan. Arriving there felt like entering another ... If you can go to the Ohara region, near the ryokan, then visit all the temples there: Sanzen-in, Jikkō-in, Hōsen-in, Raigō-in.

Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers with its ... affords visitors panoramas of the surrounding forest. Those views are even more beautiful in the ...

“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 ...

SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...

The former imperial capital is both the symbol of Japan's temples and geishas and of globalized overtourism. And yet, blocks ...

flashes of bright red among the hillside forest. The iconic Japanese dolls range from a couple of inches to several feet in height, and there are thousands of them at the 1,300-year-old temple ...