This underrated city was once the capital of Japan in the Middle Ages and is now a beautiful, tourist-friendly hub with ...

With festivals taking place throughout the year in Tokyo, you have a good chance that your trip will coincide with a ...

The Hiroshima Daibutsu (big Buddha statue) is currently enshrined at Gokurakuji ... meters tall and believed to have been made during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), in or around 1200.

The city of Kamakura is one of Japan ... Throughout it all, the great Buddha remained standing. Take a good long look at the statue during your visit, but don't bother going inside the temple ...

It is said that the statues represent each character of the sutra “Namu Amida Butsu” (I take refuge in Amida Buddha ... during the 13th-century Kamakura Period. It is the first time in ...

An ancient Buddha statue from the early Goryeo dynasty was recently discovered at an archaeological site in North Korea. The Goryeo study saw the flourishing of Buddhist art and architecture ...