The Nakasendo road still exists in its entirety - as do dozens of the post towns it weaves between - and can form an epic ...

The number of burglaries targeting vacant houses that have not been occupied for a long time, has starkly increased in ...

What created the Noto Peninsula landscape we know today? After examining the devastation from the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, researchers have a theory.

Land topography is usually formed gradually over long periods of time, but sometimes a single event can dramatically change ...

Weather News announced that cherry blossom is expected to bloom nationwide earlier than usual. The earliest blooming is seen ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds from N to NNW at 8 to 10 mph (12.9 to 16.1 kph). The overnight low will be 36 °F (2.2 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 52 °F (11.1 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 9 ...

One lesson from the damage caused by the destructive typhoon that hit Japan in October last year is the need to improve hazard maps that visualize projected data for natural hazards. Hazard maps ...

JTB has forecasted that international visitors to Japan will exceed 40 million in ... ‘AdventureWeek 2025’ will be organized in Tohoku in September this year, inviting 12 international travel ...

As shown in the map below, the sakura are expected first in ... near average dates for the vast majority of eastern and western Japan, and for blossoming to start in the northeastern Tohoku region ...

Yamagata and Akita Shinkansen bullet trains will be 20% solar powered starting in April, according to East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) and Tohoku Electric Power Co. This marks the first attempt for JR ...

A Pokemon fan made a pixel-art map of Japan with game regions accurately placed. Pokemon regions like Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh are based on real Japanese locations. The Pokemon Ranger ...

As with other sakura spots in northern Japan, the cherry blossom season in Akita is later ... Kakunodate, often called the “Little Kyoto of Tohoku,” is likely to be a local’s first spot that comes to ...