Perched on a wooded hillside in southern Kyoto, Fushimi Inari is a 1,300-year-old temple dedicated to Inari, the Shinto deity of rice and sake (Japanese rice wine). The shrine complex dates back ...

Tokyo, the eternal "adversary" of the former capital Kyoto, from whom it "stole" the emperor during the Meiji ... and the Fushimi Inari shrine, so popular with Instagrammers with its thousands ...

Fushimi Inari Taisha should be at ... Gion is an atmospheric area to spend time during your Kyoto 4-day itinerary. Gion is the most famous geisha district of Kyoto and is close to Shijo Avenue between ...

Wake up extra early, so that you can be one of the very first people climbing up the mountain at the holy Fushimi Inari Shrine. Go all the way to the ... you’re really intending to be on the move ...

In the dark of night, completely empty, we explore the gates of Kyoto's Fushimi inari Shrine. While its famously said to have 10,000 torii gates that wind up the mountain, the real number is north ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has no plans to visit Yasukuni Shrine ... A World War II criminals along with other war dead. No cabinet ministers were confirmed to have visited the shrine during ...

Ishiba has no plans to visit the Shinto shrine during the three-day festival ... of Japan's past militarism as it honors Class-A World War II criminals along with the war dead.

On an average, 30,000 to 35,000 pilgrims visit the cave shrine during lean days and the footfall goes up to 45,000 to 50,000 pilgrims during Navratri festival. (File) Reasi senior superintendent ...