On the Spirit Trail, head toward the Torii gate at the end of the stage, there'll be another Defilement on your left (5/10).

But now, Kanonji city has something new to offer: the “torii gate in the sky” of the “hongu” main building of Takayajinja shrine that sits atop 404-meter-high Mount Inazumiyama.

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima Prefecture--The famed “floating” torii gate of Itsukushimajinja shrine, a World Heritage site under repair, was revealed for the first time in about three and a half years.

A big part of what makes Japan so fascinating is how the traditional and modern aspects of the country so often exist side-by-side…or as we’re ... passing beneath the stone torii gate that marks the ...

The traditional heartland showcases a different side of spiritual Japan, in a way that completements time well spent in Tokyo. The region offers an abundance of temples, shrines and torii gates to ...

His father, Ken, was travelling around Japan and came across a beautiful island with a torii gate, used by the Japanese to symbolically mark the transition of the mundane to the sacred.