Before Starting!! Right in the middle of Tokyo, Japan you will find what just might be Tokyo's Coolest Shrine. The only ...

The Japanese capital of Tokyo can be intimidating, even though this Asian country is often ranked as one of the safest destinations for solo travelers. Shinjuku is the busiest railway station in ...

Visits to the shrine by senior Japanese political figures have drawn criticism from countries such as South Korea, which was under Tokyo’s colonial rule for 35 years, and China, which Japan invaded.

Tokyo’s Kameido Tenjin Shrine is famous for its wisteria flowers, and with good reason – the shrine has over 50 wisteria trees, which usually reach their flowering peak between mid-April and ...

A shrine in Tokyo is dedicated to a deity believed to control the weather. For three days in fall, a season of fickle weather in Japan, we asked people why they wanted divine help for sunny skies.

A priest at a central Tokyo shrine was puzzled at first when a worshipper thanked him for helping him score a concert ticket for a famous pop group. Hiroyuki Korehisa, 37, who serves as a ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gave a ritual masakaki tree offering to Yasukuni Shrine at the start of the war-related Tokyo shrine's spring festival on Monday. Ishiba has no plans to visit the ...

China has lodged a protest after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the controversial war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and dozens of lawmakers visited it ...