One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...

Within the stunningly decorated wooden walls of an immense temple in Kyoto, you'll find an unusual artifact of human hair ...

It is also a vital stop on the Shikoku Pilgrimage as the tip of the cape plays host to the 24th temple, Hotsumisaki-ji, where ...

In a nation as culturally rich as Japan, it can be hard to know how to spend your time there. Here are ten of our favorite ...

the only officially recognized Tibetan temple in Japan. One of the most eye-catching features at the hilltop temple, known as ...

"You can feel the atmosphere of a Japanese temple," he says. "It's also an opportunity to stay in a real wooden building built many years ago." Venture further east in Kansai and you'll reach Ise ...

In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s largest Buddhist group readily handed over its temple bells for the ...

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be cured. Its main object of worship is a statue of the 11-faced ...