On the other side of the Miya River, Kokubun-ji temple, founded in ... 1,250-year-old ginkgo tree. Shrines and open-air ...

On top of a hill, an extraordinary scene spreads before visitors with hundreds of red shrine gates lined one after another. At the Takayama Inari Shrine, the enshrined god is the god of rice ...

As Japan’s population falls and interest in religion declines, there are fewer people to contribute to the upkeep of the country’s numerous temples and shrines. Suzuki’s Mikaboyama temple ...