Explore Tokyo’s Underground Temple—an epic flood control facility with towering columns, massive tunnels and a cathedral-like ...

Renkō-ji Temple in Tokyo quietly safeguards an urn believed to contain the ashes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, fueling ...

Ikegami Honmonji, the head temple of the Nichiren school of Buddhism, in Ōta, Tokyo, is one of the capital’s most famous Buddhist sites. Its vast grounds, measuring nearly 100,000 square meters ...

The oldest religious site in Tokyo is also its most visited. The Senso-ji Temple sees about 30 million annual visitors and its inception dates all the way back to year 628. Despite its claim to ...

inviting him into a Buddhist temple called Gotokuji, in what is now the suburban Setagaya ward in southwestern Tokyo. When a storm quickly arrived, he was enjoying a conversation with the temple ...

Senso-ji is quintessential Tokyo, at least the traditional, old-school version. The temple is Tokyo’s oldest, dating back to 645 AD. Destroyed during World War II, it was rebuilt in the 1950s.

Glance around the grounds and listen to discover that not only devout followers and tourists congregate at shrines and temples in central Tokyo. Shrines, temples and historic parks have a richer ...