The only human activities in the core area are sightseeing and visits to the Woljong Temple, an old historic relic.

UNESCO: Natural Sciences

From the upper floors, a programmer could see, in the distance, the pagoda roof of the main hall of Tofuku-ji, an eight-hundred-year-old Zen temple, rising over the trees at the edge of town.

NEWYORKER: Master of Play

This time it was not the silvery pencil of an Atlas booster carrying the 77-year-old Senator into space but the great technological temple of a space shuttle.

CNN: Victory Lap