There is a breathtaking golden temple in one of the world's best visitor destinations and it will blow you away.

Katsuo-ji offers visitors two different types of Darumas: the Kachi-Daruma, the classic doll known as “the winning Daruma” ...

When American businessman Brian Heywood decided to build a home in Kamakura, he wondered if he could also save some old ...

In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s largest Buddhist group readily handed over its temple bells for the ...

One of the largest is the 600-year-old tree measuring 15 meters in height and having a circumference of three meters at its base. It is called a "weeping" cherry tree as it has blossoms on spreading ...

Once Japan’s Imperial capital, the city has been a spiritual and cultural epicentre for more than a thousand years. That ...

Note: Kobo Daishi is the posthumous name of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835).