Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan ... year-old pond fringed with lily pads and tree-lined ...

When American businessman Brian Heywood decided to build a home in Kamakura, he wondered if he could also save some old ...

KYOTO--Under the autumn foliage, Kazuo Taniguchi, 76, and his wife, Etsuko, 75, wandered around the Shogakuan sub-temple here ... (Grave Sociology), Japan has a few hundred tree burial graveyards ...

A bout 700 feet from Zambezi National Park and less than a 10-minute drive to Mosi-oa-Tunya, a.k.a. Victoria Falls, one of ...

The official largest camphor tree in Japan is at Kamou Hachiman ... you may see a bunch of big old trees in a clump--it is likely a temple or shrine is there. It brings me solace that such places ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A centuries-old tradition ended in 2024 due to Japan's aging population and decline in birth rates. The Somin-sai was one of the three major Hadaka Matsuri ...

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Earthquake-proof joinery, 10-micrometre-thin wood shavings and a scale model of Kyoto's Sa-an Teahouse are on display at ...

Kokubun-ji temple, founded in the 8 th century, is a must-see if you want to explore Takayama's sacred history: the visit includes a three-storey pagoda and a colossal 1,250-year-old ginkgo tree.