Among 80,000 artifacts from the sacred Japanese island of Okinoshima, Japanese researchers discovered an intricately ...

Archaeologists found the gold-plated artifact on a sacred island of Japan almost 70 years ago but only recently took a closer ...

CNN’s Will Ripley visits the ancient temple complex of Koyasan in the mountains of Wakayama Prefecture and experiences monastic life at Ekoin Temple. Russian spy sensors found hidden in UK ...

Divided into the four prefectures of Kagawa, Ehime, Tokushima and Kochi, Shikoku can be reached by air, train, bus or ferry from Japan's major cities. With its 88 temples and sacred sites ...

People say it carries the voice of the deities, which seemed appropriate as we were on the Kumano Kodo, Japan’s ancient ... The Kumano Kodo, a sacred route for over 1,000 years, is an antidote ...

Since the Edo period (between 1603 and 1868), pilgrims have come to this region to visit Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrine ... there’s no shortage of places to enjoy fresh seafood.

For more than a millennium, Kyoto flourished as the imperial capital of Japan. But in a seismic upheaval ... And one of the best places to find a bounty of blossoms is alongside Kyoto’s rivers ...

The Japanese city is famous for its temples and ... glorious bursts of white and pink called sakura. And one of the best places to find a bounty of blossoms is alongside Kyoto’s rivers and ...