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 ...

Always the centre of attraction, Central Japan oozes ... the Oiwasan Nissekiji Temple invites visitors to experience a special kind of meditation – underneath a waterfall. In the embrace of ...

Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...