Hiroshima, an ancient Japanese city that has witnessed samurai and shoguns, withstood earthquakes and floods, undergone an unprecedented atomic attack, and flourished as a modern metropolis, is ...

Travelers heading to the island location of one of Japan's most iconic sights will pay a tourist tax during their next visit. The island of Miyajima in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture has begun charging ...

World leaders visited the Itsukushima shrine in Hiroshima as they gathered for the G7 summit in Japan on Friday, 19 May. Itsukushima shrine on Miyajima island is well known for its iconic “floating” ...

The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present ...

The Bureau expresses deep sympathy for the citizens who suffered from loss of property caused by the large scale earthquake of 22 March 2001 in the Hiroshima and Itsukushima areas. The Bureau takes ...