Travel to Japan has exploded in recents years. Sustainable tourism advocates say the country needs to be proactive at ...

Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to ...

Japan was the top cross-border destination for Chinese tourists during the eight-day Lunar New Year holiday through Feb. 4, ...

DaSilva also pointed to Japan's prevalence in popular culture, including the rise of interest in anime and TV shows in the ...

Nestled in the heart of the Honshu mountains, Takayama’s nickname is “the little Kyoto of the Alps,” and for good reason: its Edo-era districts, old wooden houses, sake breweries and shaded temples ...

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For a complicated trip and without a lot of time and effort to construct your itinerary, you would be better off talking to a ...

Approximately 3 hours from Tokyo via Nagoya, Gifu is accessible by bullet train and local train. Gifu Prefecture is in the ...

A ‘genuinely alarming’ Japanese horror film with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score will fuel your nightmares as it arrives on Amazon Prime Video. Released in 1998, Ring follows investigative ...

Next stop Aizuwakamatsu, another four-hour train ride to the south, followed by Kanazawa and Takayama and finally Naoshima. Japan’s “art island” is much closer to Osaka than Tokyo ...

The Sapporo city government announced on Feb. 3 that it will stop requiring employees to pay for their own business cards, ...