An iconic floating shrine, a stunning pagoda, free-roaming deer, gorgeous nature, and cozy traditional inns can all be found ...

Watazumi Shrine on Tsushima has banned all visiting tourists. A grave and unforgivable act involving tourists occurred a few ...

The Watazumi Shrine on Tsushima Island has been closed to all tourists following “a grave and unforgivable act of disrespect ...

A Japanese shrine famous to video game fans has announced a ban on visits by tourists, following an "unforgivable act ...

In the fall of 2020, the town of Tsushima’s Watazumi Shrine was damaged by a typhoon that struck the area, destroying one of its torii gates that rises out of the bay waters adjacent to the shrine. In ...

The shrine complex dates back to the eighth century, but it's not the star of the show. Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line the 2 ½-mile-long ...

An iconic Japanese shrine that Ghost of Tsushima fans helped repair has now banned all tourists after an “unforgivable” act was committed.

Watazumi Shrine is found on Tsushima Island. Most famous for its half-sunken Torii gate, it's thought to have inspired Ghost of Tsushima's in-game Scarlet Rock shrine, and received $260,000 from ...

As the game points out, not only through the implication of the message, but through an extensive codex entry, Torii gates ...

On top of that, tourists from other parts of the world have also been busted for issues such as having public sex in sacred ...