Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...

A 65-year-old U.S. citizen named Steven Lee Hayes on Nov. 14 was accused of defacing the shrine's entry gate. Japanese authorities accused Hayes of using his fingernails to scratch his initials in ...

Under Japanese law, such vandalism could result ... Defacing cultural landmarks like the torii gate at the Meiji Shrine is not just an act of property damage—it is viewed as an affront to ...

Visitors looking for the "real Japan" may find it on a new long trail two hours from Tokyo that shows off the country's ...

Coral Expeditions has three 14-night Through the Heart of Japan departures in 2025: October 4, October 18 and November 2.

The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto (Japan's original religion) shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Japanese history credits Meiji for modernizing Japan by incorporating Western ...

The gate, designated an important ... He also has crisscrossed Japan to study architectural heritages firsthand. The number of shrines, temples and castles he has visited exceeds 180.