Recent reports indicate that China has expanded visa-free entry to 70 countries, including those eligible for transit visa ...

In 1998, a traditional torii gate and Japanese garden were installed in Shoreline Park to honor Santa Barbara’s sister city, Toba, Japan. While the torii gate marking the entrance to the Shoreline ...

Bath built a Japanese torii gate and memorial garden honoring citizens of Tsugaru who, in 1889, rescued crew members of the Cheseborough, a Bath-built merchant vessel that ran aground during a ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Santa Barbara city workers completed the Shoreline Park's Torii Gate restoration project on Thursday. The gate marks the Shoreline Steps to the beach. It was built in ...

Entrances to the shrine feature huge wooden gates, known as torii, which are crowned with distinct curved beams. The suspect, who was visiting Japan with his family, faces up to three years in ...

The torii gate's unusual three-legged form is designed to create a centre point that represents the universe. It's one of only three documented torii gates in Japan with this triangular shape.

Torii Johnson was named long before he was even conceived. His father, Ken, was travelling around Japan and came across a beautiful island with a torii gate, used by the Japanese to symbolically ...

Though torii archways were historically meant to distinguish Shinto shrines from Buddhist shrines, Buddhist temples have also used torii gates (for example, the oldest state-built Buddhist temple ...