HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima Prefecture--Visitors to Miyajima island here will face a new tax of 100 yen (70 cents) starting Oct. 1 next year to pay for much-needed upgrades to tourist facilities.

I’ve always had an interest in Japan and cherry blossoms. I was nine when my father brought a Japanese colleague home for ...

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima Prefecture--A Miyajima visitor tax will be introduced on Oct. 1 costing tourists 100 yen (67 cents) to visit the island, home to Itsukushimajinja shrine, a World Heritage site.

It also included visits to Hiroshima and Miyajima Island and a week in central Japan. The trip cost about $3,400, not including the airfare, which I paid for with credit-card points. As a cost ...

That’s a relatively new concept, with Venice perhaps the first city to implement one for this purpose, three weeks before Japan’s Miyajima Island announced the new regulation. While the plan ...

Photos of a massive red shrine gate that appears to be floating in the sea is one of the most iconic images of Japan. The gate is the great torii of Itsukushima Shrine on the small island in the Seto ...

The gate is the great torii of Itsukushima Shrine on the small island in the Seto Inland Sea known as Miyajima. World Heritage-listed Miyajima is indeed an iconic spot, said to be one of the top three ...