Temples & Shrines Takamatsu Temple Countdown Arlene Bastion The last few temples before completing the Henro might be the toughest.
6 Temples & Shrines Kameido Tenjin Shrine Manish Prabhune Kameido Tenjin Shrine, also called Shitamachi-no Tenjin-sama, has an incredibly beautiful setting, right in the center of Tokyo.
Historical The Calmness of Hōryū-ji, Nara Andre Moreira Let the hundreds and hundreds of years of this sacred location refresh your soul... Hōryū-ji, a place not to miss if you visit..
12 Temples & Shrines Kyoto Ryoan-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima Since Queen Elizabeth II visited this rock garden and highly praised it in 1975, huge numbers of people have flocked to Ryoan-ji..
10 Temples & Shrines Shisendo Temple's Hermitage Garden Bonson Lam Jozan Ishikawa became a hermit and a poet, and retired amongst the manicured gardens of Shisendo, which he constructed after falling..
9 Temples & Shrines Hakozaki Shrine in Fukuoka Haruka Saijo Visit Fukuoka's Hakozaki Shrine, one of the three greatest Hachiman Shrines in Japan.
11 Historical Miyamoto Musashi's Grave and Shrine Anonymous Okayama is full of little gems often overlooked by the average traveler. One of these is Miyamoto no Sato, a small little village..
12 Temples & Shrines Zeniarai Benzaiten Shrine, Kamakura Adeline Ong This is one of the famous Shinto shrines and location of a miraculous spring in Kamakura. Washing money in the spring is supposed..