When you're done taking in the temple's surrounding beauty, you are invited to drink from the Otowa Waterfall, which gave the temple its name (kiyomizu means "pure water"). The waterfall is ...

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 ...

Will begins his journey in the town of Koyasan, regarded as one of the most sacred places in Japan and the heart of Shingon Buddhism. At the ancient Ekoin Temple, monk Hoko Fukayama introduces Will to ...