AOMORI -- Towering "snow monster" ice-covered trees in Aomori's Hakkoda mountains are now at their most spectacular, drawing visitors from around the world. These unique formations occur when ice ...

According to the Zao Ropeway, snow monsters typically begin to take shape ... Fu Shi-xiang, 31, who is from Taiwan and works in Japan, learned about Zao through social media and decided to ...

At wintertime, seasonal winds blowing in from the Japan Sea transform the trees of the Zao mountain range into "snow monsters", or Zao Juhyo. The rime-covered trees are a popular tourist ...

But Fumitaka Yanagisawa, a professor emeritus at Yamagata University’s Research Institute for Ice Monsters and Volcanoes of Zao, warns that ice monsters will all but vanish from Japan by the end ...