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While Ise is famed for the Ise Shima shrine, Japan's most sacred, the bayside Futamiokitama Shrine and the famous wedded rocks, tied together by a sacred rice straw rope, are only a short walk ...

The world's first cultured pearls were born in Ise-Shima in Mie Prefecture. On this episode of Journeys in Japan, Do Minh Khai from Vietnam explores the Ise-Shima area, the home of magical pearls.

ISE, Mie Prefecture--Kintetsu Railway Co. will start an irregular service allowing cyclists to bring their bicycles on trains heading to the Ise-Shima area, a popular cycling spot. The Cycle Train ...

Ise Shima Bunka Kaihatsu, a company set up specifically last year to get the project up and running, said the facility in the Agocho-Shijima district of Shima aimed to provide “beginners to ...

Patrol a pearl farm with a kitty named Pisuke, then meet a pearl shop cat that's got a special talent! Seeing happy kitties enjoy fresh seafood will warm your heart!