KOCHI — A researcher is working to preserve natural disaster monuments, which tell the stories of... NAGANO — The number of cases in which people required assistance on mountains in Nagano Prefectur..

TSU -- The roof of a Western-style church near the Ise Jingu shinto shrine in Mie Prefecture is adorned with "onigawara" ...

Hiking on the Nakasendo trail in the Gifu and Nagano Prefectures of central Japan ... You can expect temperate weather in the ...

The first thing to consider about the Japanese onsen is whether or not being naked in public bothers you. I’m not referring ...

Shoulder season refers to the period of time between peak season and off. This can last months or weeks depending on ...

Cloudy with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C). Winds SW. Night - Cloudy with a 65% chance of precipitation. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 41 °F (5 °C). Mostly cloudy today with a high of ...

That includes the once-hot Niigata prefecture, long considered one of ... spending during the peak winter ski season, he said. But Nagano's Hakuba — which is sometimes referred to as "second ...

■Support for famous mountaineers By providing weather forecasts, Inokuma supports Hirotaka Takeuchi, who became the first Japanese mountaineer to conquer all fourteen 8,000+ meter peaks with a ...

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Just an hour from Tokyo, the upscale resort town of Karuizawa is made for forest bathing and farm-to-table dining ...