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Here’s how to explore the best of Japan’s capital, from summer festivals and less-visited neighborhoods to day trips to World ...
Whether it’s transiting at Narita International Airport or jumping from one magical world to the next at Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea, most people heading to Chiba Prefecture are on their way ...
Sometimes called the Kyoto of eastern Japan, Kamakura boasts dozens of shrines including the Great Buddha, a towering ...
One monk died. Some people were injured, we pulled out some people and took them to the hospital." The head of the main Buddha statue in the monastery fell off and was placed on the platform at its ...
The condo towers of Pattaya jut on the horizon like Surfers Paradise gone walkabout. To reach them I return to the mainland ...
We’ve spent 5 weeks traveling around Japan in the spring and fall seasons ... the views only get better inside. The statue of Vairocana Buddha (the Buddha of Light) standing at 14.98 meters ...
Candlelit dining rooms, endless wine and cocktail lists, oversized sashimi platters and marbled steaks prepared on open ...
Khem Veasna, the head of the League for Democracy Party ... had his own face carved onto statues of the Buddha inside temples, and institutionalized the link between Buddhist merit and political ...
With more influences from Hong Kong and Japan and increasingly sophisticated ... boss in order to retrieve his village's stolen Buddha statue. A pure exhibition of Tony Jaa's gravity-defying ...
Having first visited Thailand as a backpacker two decades ago - and returned annually ever since - my hotel tally broke 100 some time ago.