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 ...

Fushimi Inari Taisha is famous for the vermillion shrine gates that line mountain paths. As the head Inari shrine, it has 30,000 subordinate shrines throughout Japan.

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 ...

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KYOTO—Sixteen shrines and temples here are now granting access to their private statues and architecture for a spring ...

It was a little more than 25 years ago that I first walked the streets of Gion, the centuries-old geisha district of Kyoto ... of red torii gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine that led up a wooded ...

KYOTO—A cafe owner who promotes universally ... Her cafe is located near both Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine and Tofukuji temple, popular tourist sites. “We wanted to overcome the negative ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

S et inside the former Telephone Exchange building, Ace Hotel Kyoto is ideally placed to explore one of Japan’s most vibrant ...

Japan is in the middle of an unprecedentedly huge inbound ... Looking at the number of foreign visitors at Kinkakuji/the Golden Pavilion, Fushimi Inari Shrine, the scenic Togetsukyo Bridge in the ...