Tōdai-ji, located in Nara, is one of Japan's historic gems. It is home to the bronze statue of the Great ... Meiji and Empress Shoken. The entrance to the shrine is marked by impressive wooden ...

Okamoto Shrine and Ōtaki Shrine, 15 minutes by car from Echizen Takefu station in the Fukui city of Echizen, has attracted attention thanks to scenes of Japanese ... of the entrance to the ...

According to the “Nihon Shoki” (The Chronicles of Japan ... sealed the entrance with the massive rock. Hana-no-Iwaya was a cemetery before officially being designated a shrine in the Meiji ...

The guardian dogs were on the grounds of a stone shop here when the Great East Japan Earthquake ... but the statues were not swept away. Oshachi Tenmangu shrine, unfortunately, was wiped out ...