Explore boreal forests in Japan and subtropical jungles while immersing yourself in its rich spiritual and cultural heritage.

SANBAGAWA, Gunma Prefecture--Benmou Suzuki’s dilapidated 420-year-old temple, located deep in the forest near a tiny Japanese mountain village, hardly looks like prized real estate. Yet the monk ...

Explore boreal forests in Japan and subtropical jungles while immersing yourself in its rich spiritual and cultural heritage.

The Unrinji Temple in west Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture ... Thirty minutes away from Hagi’s city centre, the name means “clouded forest temple”, but is popularly known as the “Cat ...

A Canadian teenager has been questioned by police in Japan after carving letters on a wooden pillar of an 8th Century temple. Police said the 17-year-old boy carved "Julian" on a pillar at the ...

However, Buseoksa temple in South Chungcheong province, located in west-central South Korea, claimed that the statue was looted in the 14th century by Japanese “wako” pirates.

Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers with its ... affords visitors panoramas of the surrounding forest. Those views are even more beautiful in the ...

For example, in the eastern part of the forest a tomb pagoda built in 1339 in the Yuan Dynasty bears an epitaph written by a Japanese monk at Shaolin Temple, which is of elegant language and ...

actual visits to Buddhist temple A Buddhist temple in Japan with more than 400 years of history has found a way to attract ...