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Ryōkei Kume, a priest at Tokushima’s Konji-ji temple, guides visitors through takigyō (waterfall training) for over twenty years, even in the freezing cold. ...

Why not escape the crowds and have the best cherry blossoms all to yourself? We have compiled four unique cherry blossom spots that Seiyo City, Ehime, is pro...

Crackling flames cast an orange glow on the fearsome Buddha before the altar as the smell of fragrant smoke fills your nostrils. The pounding of the taiko dr...

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...