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Visit the birthplace of the Japanese daruma in Gunma Prefecture

Oona McGee
Aug 14, 2022
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Home to some unusual rotund inhabitants.

Japan
(Buddhism • COK • culture • daruma • Darumaji • gunma prefecture • religion • Shorinzan Darumaji Temple • SNJO • Takasaki • temples • tradition • travel)

Japan’s northernmost brewery on the mainland is…a temple?!?

Oona McGee
May 24, 2022

The holiest craft beer in the country.

Japan
(Aomori • beer • brewery • Buddhism • COK • cool • crazy • culture • haruka takagi • religion • SNJO • temples • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • travel • weird • winery • wines)

Where to find the Great Floating Buddha of Ikebukuro

Oona McGee
Mar 29, 2022

Tokyo ward known for its otaku culture holds a hidden gem not many people know about.

Japan
(Buddha • Buddhism • COK • cool • crazy • culture • daibutsu • Great Buddha • Ikebukuro • religion • SNJO • temples • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • weird)

Whisky worship: Kyoto craftsmen make prayer beads out of Japanese whisky barrels

Casey Baseel
Feb 18, 2022

Oak is reborn as juzu after half-century helping to make Japanese whisky.

Japan
(alcohol • Buddhism • COK • drinks • Japanese whisky • juzu • prayer beads • religion • Whiskey • whisky)

Cosplay company creates fantasy RPG-style memorial altars for the ashes of your ancestors【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2022

Takumi Armory helps you give family members a resting place and sendoff fit for a hero.

Japan
(altar • anime • awesome • Buddhism • butsudan • cool • cosplay • culture • religion • Takumi Armory • video games)

Online pilgrimages along Japan’s famous Shikoku Henro route begin later this year

Master Blaster
Jan 3, 2022

A journey of 1,000 kilometers begins with a single log-in.

Japan
(Buddhism • culture • history • pilgrimage • religion • Shikoku • Shikoku Henro • Shikoku Pilgrimage • tourism • travel • Zoom)

Senkoji: The Japanese temple that’s more like a theme park to heaven and hell

Oona McGee
Dec 16, 2021

The chief priest at this temple says there’s more to this experience than just entertainment.

Japan
(Buddha • Buddhism • COK • cool • crazy • culture • heaven • hell • history • Osaka • religion • SNJO • temples • tourism • tourist sites • weird)

This Tokyo apartment building uses feng shui in its design to make for very lucky living spaces

Dale Roll
Dec 14, 2021

With bright color schemes and unusual room designs, this complex would be a unique place to live!

Japan
(#starringjohncho • Apartment • architecture • design • feng shui • Kami-Shakujii • religion • Shijin So-o • social apartments • Tokyo)

Boys’ love at the temple? Sensual ikemen art that raised eyebrows in Japan now set to be removed

Oona McGee
Nov 21, 2021

Modern makeover at centuries-old temple comes to an end, but not for rumoured reasons.

Japan
(art • artwork • BL • boys love • Buddha • Buddhism • COK • controversy • cool • crazy • culture • history • manga • murals • Niigata • paintings • religion • SNJO • temples • weird)

Enjoy “Jinja Ehru” ginger ale from a historic shrine in Tokyo

Master Blaster
Oct 26, 2021

Drink up the shrine’s blessings in a most sacred pun.

Japan
(drinks • Jinja Ehru • Kaminari-okashi • Kanda Myojin • religion • shinto • shrines • SNJO)

Does Tokyo’s “breakup shrine” really have the power to end relationships?

Oona McGee
Oct 8, 2021

We set out to dispel rumours about the shrine’s mysterious power…but it ends up biting us in the butt.

Japan
(Big Wave • Butch • COK • culture • history • legends • love • relationships • religion • romance • scary • Seiji Nakazawa • shinto • shrines • SNJO • spirits • Tokyo)

Sacred forbidden forest at a Japanese shrine has been off-limits to visitors for centuries

Oona McGee
Apr 24, 2021

We get to enter a holy land that’s been protected since ancient times, and it reminds us of the world of Princess Mononoke.

Japan
(culture • curse • Cursed Japan • forbidden • haunted Japan • history • Ishikawa Prefecture • Keta Grand Shrine • nature • Noto Peninsula • religion • Seiji Nakazawa • shrines • SNJO • tradition • trees)

Cursed sites of Tokyo: A love shrine with 7 mysteries and a vengeful samurai ghost

Oona McGee
Mar 9, 2021

Dark details you won’t find in travel guides to Japan.

Japan
(culture • ghosts • history • legends • religion • samurai • scary • shinto • shrines • society • spirits • temples • Tokyo)

Japanese water purification ritual at shrines under threat due to the pandemic

Oona McGee
Dec 5, 2020

Shrine enthusiasts come up with a clever solution to help preserve an important tradition.

Japan
(coronavirus • COVID-19 • culture • hishaku • new normal • purification rituals • religion • shrine • shrine goods • shrines • temples • tradition)

Japanese police hide at shrine in camo gear to catch a thief…who stole six bucks 【Video】

Oona McGee
Nov 12, 2020

Elaborate sting operation lasts over four hours, ends with an officer tripping over and another one appearing from the bushes in a full-on Ghillie suit.

Japan
(arrests • camouflage • COK • crime • culture • Ghillie suit • police • religion • Saitama • shinto • shrines • stakeout • theft • video)

Japanese taxi company offers service to visit family graves for those who can’t travel themselves

Katy Kelly
Aug 18, 2020

Send a taxi driver to your family’s resting place, but it costs extra to leave flowers.

Japan
(Aichi Prefecture • business • family • graves • Obon • religion • spirituality • taxi • taxi company)

Major Japanese bread maker officially finds God

Master Blaster
Aug 11, 2020

Breadliness is next to godliness.

Japan
(bread • business • Christianity • food • Inochi no Michi • Lunch Pack • religion • Yamazaki Bread Company)

Sensoji temple at Asakusa gets a new giant lantern

Oona McGee
Apr 29, 2020

While we were all social distancing, Tokyo’s most famous temple got a facelift.

Japan
(Asakusa • coronavirus • coronavirus outbreak • culture • religion • Sensoji • temples • tourism • tourist sites • tradition • travel)

Shinto, Buddhist, and Catholic priests come together to pray for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic

Dale Roll
Apr 28, 2020

The three biggest religions of Japan and some of their sects unite in the spiritual fight against the disease.

Japan
(Buddhism • Catholicism • Catholicism in Japan • coronavirus • COVID-19 • prayers • religion • Religion and Spirituality • Shintoism • spiritual)

Japan has a festival where they straight-up throw dudes into a fire【Videos】

Casey Baseel
Jan 22, 2020

Getting married or having a kid? Then into the flames you go!

Japan
(crazy • culture • festivals • fire • religion • video)

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