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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...

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...