Torii gates are often found at the entrance to Shinto shrines that symbolize the transition from the everyday world to the sacred. The incident comes as a surge of tourists have visited Japan in ...

Thank you.” Toriis are sacred gates or traditional arches typically placed at the entrance of Shinto shrines to signify the ...

where the shrine sits. Sometimes in dense rows and other times more staggered, the gates are all engraved with the names of Shinto devotees who donated them. It takes about three hours to make the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water on Saturday in a pool at a Tokyo ...

Visitor numbers to Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in the greater ... visitors were guided to the main hall straight from the Kaminarimon gate via the traditional Nakamise shopping street.

This shrine in Kumamoto Pref. was razed in the 2016 earthquake. The seven-year restoration fused traditional craftsmanship with the latest technology. It had a magnitude of 7.3 and a reading of 7 ...

Mostly half-naked men with just white loincloth around their hips and several women in white robes joined the annual cold endurance ritual at the Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo.