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 ...

Each of these temples ... up to Inari Mountain. Visitors can stroll along the winding paths to enjoy panoramic views of Kyoto. Kiyomizu-dera, perched on a hill in Kyoto, is one of Japan's most ...

Tsubosakadera temple in Takatori, Nara Prefecture, is known as a place where people can come to pray for eye diseases to be cured. Its main object of worship is a statue of the 11-faced ...