In hotspots like Kyoto you sometimes have to queue for the queues, but escaping the country’s overtourism problem couldn’t be simpler ...

While Spain's headline trail now attracts up to half a million pilgrims a year, its twin is often uncrowded and offers a ...

The air-conditioned accommodation is 27 km from Ise Grand Shrine, and guests can benefit from on-site private parking and complimentary WiFi. The property is non-smoking and is situated 28 km from ...

The Sustainabilty in Practice speaker talks to fellow structural engineer Guy Nordenson about building renewal and material reuse.

Experts say interest in Shinto among ordinary Japanese is holding steady or even increasing. As one measure of this, visitors to the Ise Grand Shrine, Japan's most important shrine, have grown in ...

The Kumano Kodo is based on a 300km route between Japan’s former imperial capital of Kyoto and the Three Grand Shrines ... passing the shrine of the sun goddess at Ise, and the mountainous ...

Japan's Supreme Court delivered the final decision earlier in the day on a request filed in 2013 by 27 family members seeking to eliminate their relatives' names from Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine.

Cisco has released patches to fix two critical vulnerabilities in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) security policy management platform. Enterprise administrators use Cisco ISE as an identity and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition to purify the soul and pray for ...

This new book by Hongō Kazuto covers all the major, classical developments you might expect to find in a conventional history of religion in Japan ... in places like Ise Nagashima and Echizen ...

A scantily clad shrine parishioner throws icy cold water ... 2025, a traditional Japanese way of purifying soul and praying for their health in the new year. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) ...