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The craggy cliffs of Mt. Ishizuchi, Shikoku’s tallest mountain, are draped in heavy iron chains. White-clad practitioners of Shugendō, “the Path of Cultivati...

For travelers who love both the sea and the mountains, who are drawn to Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples and the culture and history surrounding them, and...

Japan’s iconic torii gates appear everywhere, from bustling streetcorners to soaring mountain peaks, and Shikoku’s no exception. These gates mark sacred spac...

The Shikoku Pilgrimage is a 1,300 kilometer circuit linking 88 temples across the island of Shikoku. Traditionally completed on foot over 45 to 50 days, the ...

Situated near Japan’s oldest hot spring in Matsuyama City, the legend of Ishite-ji, or Stone-Hand Temple, sits at the heart of the Henro. Origins and History...

Clinging to cave-pocked cliffs high in the Kuma Mountains, Iwaya-ji has since antiquity been one of the Henro’s most idyllic and imposing sacred sites. ...

With origins stretching back to the earliest days of Buddhism in Japan, Ehime’s Daiho-ji, or “Temple of the Great Treasure,” lives up to its name with ancien...

Inspired by a dream and funded by samurai lords, Kochi City’s Chikurin-ji is one of the pilgrimage’s largest and most beautiful temples. Guided experiences l...

Konomine-ji, the Temple of the Divine Peak, clings to a mountainside 450 meters above the Tosa Bay. The mountain, site of tales and traditions that predate B...

Hotsumisaki-ji, “The Temple of the Most Holy Peninsula,” is perched atop cliffs overlooking the rugged coastline of the Muroto Peninsula in Kochi Prefecture....