Officials from Shikoku gathered in Tokyo on August 21 to rally for shinkansen services to be extended to Japan’s ...

The Shikoku region boasts two cafes that rank first and third, respectively, in a list of casual spots across Japan where visitors can enjoy great views and natural beauty with a cup of coffee.

It’s an art museum’s worst nightmare.2 art museums in Shikoku deemed likely victims of a master art forger THE ASAHI SHIMBUN February 8, 2025 at 17:07 JST ...

The henro pilgrimage route on the island of Shikoku is celebrating its 1,200-year anniversary in 2014. Today people from all over Japan and the rest of the world are walking the circuit of 88 ...

Some of Japan's best onsens are on the southern island of Shikoku. While you can find naturally occurring and human-made onsen ryokans across Japan, a large majority of them are tucked into the ...

The Shikoku pilgrimage has, until very recently, seen significant growth in pilgrim numbers and appears, as such, to provide a counter-example to the general trend evident in surveys and studies of ...

Shikoku: The only place in Japan listed on the New York Times “52 Best Places to Go” A different kind of cultural experience, an opportunity to meet like-minded people By tourismshikoku.org ...

At 140 miles long, Shikoku is the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, about five hours by train from Tokyo, or an hour by plane, and since the 1980s has been connected to the main island of ...

We are traveling the Shikoku Pilgrimage, following the signs for henro (pilgrims), on a 1,200-kilometer circuit that runs between 88 temples on the island of Shikoku. It honors the founder of ...

Shikoku, with its lushly forested mountains and dramatic coastline, has long been ignored by most foreign tourists. No bullet trains connect the southern island to Japan’s larger cities, and ...