Shinto is the native religious tradition of Japan. I think it's easy to see visual signs of it throughout Japan, from the shrines (jinja) to the gates (torii). But what I was interested in finding out ...

Visitors climb up the flight of stone steps before they worship the Shinto Gods at a simple gate that stands between them an the holiest place in Japan in the inner sanctuary of the Grand Shrine ...

Can Shinto Survive? Every 20 years Shinto temples are completely rebuilt. The wood from the entry gates, or Tori, is recycled and every part of the building is reconstructed.

A curved piece of wood, painted red, removed from a beach in Oregon may be a piece of a shrine set to sea by the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

Stroll on a path beneath 123 torii gates toward picturesque sea views during a visit to Motonosumi Inari Shrine on Yamaguchi prefecture’s northern coast. The shrine — No. 3 on CNN’s list of ...

The Shinto gate made with whitish rocks comes into view after a 50-minute walk along a 1.5-km trail from the “gegu” sub-shrine at the foot of the mountain.

A geek nirvana has grown up around the 1,200-year-old Shinto shrine. Tokyo's Akihabara district is the place to go if you're looking for gizmos, manga, videogames, anime, or figurines.