For this reason, it is dubbed the "devil’s mountain" or ruthless mountain. Many climbers have tried and failed to scale K2. Kiyoshi Furuno, the former president of the Japanese Alpine Club ...

Unwrap the mystery of Japan’s spirituality at Unesco World Heritage site Kumano Kodo. The pilgrimage routes to Wakayama’s Kumano Sanzan shrines in the Kii Mountains, known as the Kumano Kodo ...

Nature’s might is on full view at Hashigui-iwa Rocks, where a semicircle of pyramid-shaped rocks juts out of the glimmering ...

The Shikoku Pilgrimage is a circular route spanning 88 temples affiliated with Kobo Daishi (Kukai), one of Japan's most ...