Ageuma Shinji, a Shinto ritual, is held at the shrine on May 4 and 5 every year. Horses carrying young riders in traditional warrior attire rush up the steep slope during the festival. It is ...

A horse-led march is heralding the arrival of spring in a traditional Shinto festival in the disaster-hit Noto Peninsula, central Japan.

NAMIE, Fukushima Prefecture--Locals celebrated a centuries-old festival held at a Shinto shrine here that was reconstructed after the tsunami caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake ...

An annual spring Shinto festival has started at a shrine near Lake Biwa in Japan's western prefecture of Shiga. The first in a series of rituals of the Sanno Festival was held on Sunday at the ...

NIKAHO, Akita -- Large cod were carried in procession and dedicated to a local Shinto shrine in this northern Japan city Feb. 4 in a unique festival traditionally held around the first day of ...

SHIMOSUWA, Nagano -- A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the ... ritual took place at Suwa Taisha's Shimosha Harumiya shrine in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, where this year's prediction ...

Specifically, the Watazumi Shrine located on Japan’s Tsushima Island will only allow access to those using the Shinto shrine for worship. Tourists banned after “unforgivable act of disrespect ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. A Shinto shrine that's believed to have influenced a similar location in Ghost of Tsushima has reportedly banned tourists after an undisclosed ...