The Kumano Hongu Shrine Spring Festival, held every year from April 13 to 15, is one of the most important Shinto events in ...

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Built in 1920, this revered Shinto shrine in Tokyo sees around 3 million visitors every year. Despite this, it's an oasis of calm surrounded by 100,000 trees.

There's an inescapable symbolism embedded in the film's central location: initially constructed as a dwelling for kami (the deities of the Shinto religion), this ancient shrine by the ocean's edge ...

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 ...

With 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Japan is ideal for those who like to explore the historical and environmental aspects of ...

Set in a Shinto shrine, nestled among the swaying cherry blossoms in the seaside town of Ushimado, The Cats of Gokogu Shrine is the new film from Japanese filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda. It tells the story ...

Located in the tranquil surroundings of Meiji Jingu shrine in Tokyo ... The ema are then offered to the deities by the Shinto priests the next morning. As I stood at the foot of the tree ...