About 2,000 Japanese irises of 200 varieties are in full bloom at Heian Jingu Shrine in Kyoto City. The garden has a temporary bridge over the pond at this time of year.

the Meiji Jingu shrine, the Japan Sport Council and Itochu ... two skyscrapers up to 190 meters high by 2036. Developers plan to cut down 743 of the 1,904 existing tall trees in the area and ...

They traveled approximately 4.5 kilometers to Heian Jingu Shrine in Sakyo Ward in an order that goes back in time from the Meiji era. The festival was first held in 1895, when Heian Jingu Shrine ...

Jan. 7 (UPI) --A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months after a U.S. man was arrested for desecrating it.

The man, identified as Steve Hayes, is accused of using his fingernails to scratch five letters into a torii gate at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday morning. Hayes said he was writing the name ...