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Our reporter visited a dangerous torii at a Shinto shrine and almost had a heart attack

• Krista Rogers
  Aug 29, 2019
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“Don’t wear headphones if you go there”: this important piece of advice will make sense in a moment.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • dangerous • scary • shinto • shrines • SNJO • torii • trains • travel)

Japan Travel: 17 Things to do in Oita, Japan’s onsen prefecture

• Oona McGee
  Aug 26, 2019

There’s so much more to Oita than amazing hot springs. 

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• Japan
• (accommodation • Beppu • COK • food • Hita • hotels • Kyushu • nature • Oita • onsen • ryokan • shrines • SNO • temples • tourism • tourists • travel • USA)

Kyoto has a shrine that’s supposed to make you rich, so our reporter Mai tested its power

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 17, 2019

With blessed money and a blessed wallet, is Mai about to strike it rich?

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• Japan
• (COK • experiment • gambling • good luck charms • Kyoto • lottery tickets • Mai • money • shrines • SNOJ)

Happy Reiwa! People celebrate the first day of a new era around Japan 【Pics & Videos】

• Oona McGee
  May 1, 2019

From jumping off bridges to waiting in ten-hour long queues, there are plenty of ways to welcome in a new era.

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• Japan
• (Heisei • new era • Reiwa • shrines • temples • Tokyo • Tokyo Skytree)

Visit to Kyoto’s “breakup shrine” goes terrifyingly well as woman gets her wish in shocking way

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 4, 2019

Eventually she got what she wanted, but she lost some blood along the way.

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• Japan
• (breakup • COK • crazy • Kyoto • scary • shrines • weird)

This beautiful video displays two very different sides of Japan【Video】

• Shannon McNaught
  Feb 28, 2019

Japan’s diversity of culture and landscape is encapsulated in just three minutes.

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• Japan
• (beauitful • Kyoto • Mount fuji • Osaka • shrines • tourism • travel • video • Wakayama)

Japanese Penis Festival 2019: Everything you need to know for this year’s Kanamara Matsuri

• SoraNews24
  Feb 22, 2019

Special penis shrine books will even be available for the first time this year.

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• Japan
• (cool • culture • fertility • festivals • Japanese religion • Kanamara Festival • penis festival • religion • shrines • temples • travel • weird • wtf)

This Osaka shrine is a hidden gem that includes a giant, roaring lion’s head

• Dale Roll
  Feb 18, 2019

When you visit Osaka, make sure to stop by this shrine for an amazing photo opportunity!

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• Japan
• (awesome • COK • cool • Nambayasaka Shrine • Osaka • shrines • SNOJ • travel)

Japan travel: Best places to see, eat and stay at Nagato and Mine in Yamaguchi Prefecture

• Oona McGee
  Jan 17, 2019

This is where you’ll find Japan’s largest cave, a BBQ by the sea, and a rural hotel where Russian President Putin slept in a room behind bulletproof glass.

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• Japan
• (Akiyoshidai • Akiyoshido • hotels • mine • Motonosumi • Motonosumi Inari Shrine • Nagato • Putin • ryokan • Senzakitchen • shrines • tourism • tourist sites • travel • Yamaguchi • Yamaguchi Prefecture)

Man strips, makes it rain atop stone lantern at Ise Jingu shrine in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jan 4, 2019

New Year’s Eve gets out of hand at Japan’s most holy shrine.

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• Japan
• (crime • Ise Jingu • Mie Prefecture • new year • New Year's Eve • news • Okage Yokocho • police • shrines • stone lanterns)

Nine places to take unforgettable social media photos in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 14, 2018

From modern art to Shinto shrines, Data analysis group releases its list of top photography spots from 2018.

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• Japan
• (Kyoto • photography • photos • shrines • social media • temples • travel)

Man finds incredible “door to another world” right in the middle of Tokyo【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 9, 2018

While out for a stroll in Ginza, he found a portal that seemed to take him not just to another place, but another time…twice.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • Ginza • shinto • shrines • Tokyo • video)

Cute cat infiltrates famous Japanese rock garden at Kyoto’s Tofukuji Temple 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Nov 30, 2018

Stealth feline does a perfect job of stealing the limelight from beautiful rock garden.

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• Japan
• (animals • Buddhism • cats • cute. cats • Japanese gardens • Kyoto • pets • rock gardens • shrines • temples • Tofukuji)

Hanazono Jinja Shrine: Lanterns, stalls and rakes at annual Tori no Ichi cock festival in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Nov 16, 2018

Don’t miss your chance to attend one of the biggest cock festivals in Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (festivals • Hanazono Jinja • Hanazono Shrine • Kabukicho • Matsuri • shinjuku • shrines • Tokyo • tori no ichi)

Japanese man gets arrested for stealing 30 yen (US 27 cents) from Shinto shrine’s collection box

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 15, 2018

Sometimes it’s not how much you steal, but where you steal it from that really gets you in trouble.

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• Japan
• (Chiba • COK • crime • culture • religion • shinto • shrines)

This tiny island you can walk to is a perfect snapshot of why Japan is an amazing place to travel

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 10, 2018

This beautiful detour, hidden in plain sight, serves as a beautiful example of how Japan always rewards explorers.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • iwate prefecture • shrines • SNOJ • travel)

This Shinto shrine’s gorgeous glass gateways are the only ones of their kind in all Japan【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 17, 2018

Torii gates always have an elegant allure, but none quite like this shrine’s.
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• Japan
• (beautiful • cool • glass • Kyushu • shinto • shrines • torii • travel)

Japanese anime fans shocked by torii gate collapse at Washinomiya aka the Lucky Star Shrine

• Oona McGee
  Aug 14, 2018

Real-life location for the Lucky Star anime forever altered as iconic gate comes tumbling down.

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• Japan
• (anime • cosplayers • Japanese shrines • Lucky Star • manga • Saitama • shinto • shrines • Washinomiya Shrine)

Petition to protest bulldozing of Ghibli-featured shrine gathers over 10,000 signatures worldwide

• Dale Roll
  Aug 4, 2018

The people have made it clear that they want the shrine to stay, but will that be enough to save it?

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• Japan
• (anime • Kincho Shrine • movies • Pom Poko • shinto • shrines • Studio Ghibli • Tanuki • Tokushima)

New hair pins let you look like you’ve been stabbed in the head with a classic Japanese icon

• Richard Simmonds
  Jul 25, 2018

If your body is a temple, your head is a shrine? Provide easy access to your bonce for roaming Shinto gods with a torii gate hair accessory.

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• Japan
• (fashion • gifts • hair • shrines • torii • Village Vanguard • weird)

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