Muroi, who is from Tochigi Prefecture, has been visiting Zao for years to see the juhyo and enjoy the hot springs. Fu Shi-xiang, 31, who is from Taiwan and works in Japan, learned about Zao ...

The rime-covered trees are a popular tourist attraction and people from around Japan visit the Zao Onsen Ski Resort in Yamagata Prefecture to ski and snowboard in their midst. The phenomenon ...

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 ...

At Zao Onsen Ski Resort in the city of Yamagata, ice trees conveying a feeling ... Wednesday and Friday at 4 p.m., Japan time. Click/tap here for past installments. Intermediate learners who ...