This Japanese city may often be overlooked, but it's packed with delicious street food and friendly locals waiting to chat ...

YAWATA, Kyoto Prefecture--Iwashimizu Hachimangu shrine here is a government-designated national treasure, but it is also home to a relatively unknown monument dedicated to Thomas Edison (1847-1931).

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 ...

KYOTO--A New Year’s ceremonial event highlighted by a card-snatching game was held for the first time in three years at Yasakajinja shrine here on Jan. 3. Dressed in the traditional costume of ...

A woman pilgrim from Delhi was arrested after a loaded pistol was recovered from her possession at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district ...

While crowded Kyoto continues to suffer from overtourism ... The waterfall’s Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine and its picturesque, three-story Seigantoji temple reopened in December after a multi ...

"We are observing that one kind of anarchy is going on in the name of shrine vandalism... the government wants to warn that it will not allow the vandalism of shrines in any way," she told the press ...

Additionally, 20,000 more individuals were served Iftar at stations around the shrine, while 4,000 meals were distributed to households in different parts of Mashhad.

In a major security breach reported from Vaishno Devi temple, one of the most revered pilgrim sites in India, a woman was arrested for carrying a pistol to the Shrine. The incident took place on ...

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 ...

A CRPF personnel stands guard outside the gate of the Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra, Jammu.(PTI File Photo) Jyoti Gupta, who claimed to be a retired police constable, was intercepted with the ...