MOUNT HIEI: This mountain, the highest on Kyoto's Eastern perimeter, is located exactly to the Northeast of the city. The deities of Shimogamo Shrine are believed to reside on Mount Hiei and an ...

Some 1,000 years ago, monks from warring Mt. Hiei and nobles from the capital retreated from the world in rustic Ohara, northeast of Kyoto. The monks perfected the practice of shomyo, a melodic ...

Players can collect three lost pages at the Enryakuji Temple and earn a Knowledge Point at Assassin's Creed Shadows.

14-year-old American climber Ashima Shiraishi becomes the first woman to send an 8C boulder problem with her repeat of Horizon at Mount Hiei in Japan. © Brett Lowell ...

Bouldering: thanks to her ascent of Horizon at Mount Hiei in Japan, the 14-year-old American climber Ashima Shiraishi has become the first woman in the world to climb an 8C boulder problem.