Mount Yoshino in Nara Prefecture, Japan, is home to over 30,000 trees and is one of the best places to see cherry blossoms in ...

In a nation as culturally rich as Japan, it can be hard to know how to spend your time there. Here are ten of our favorite ...

After earning absolute power over Japan’s feuding ... the perfect slow-travel alternative to the whirr of the bullet train that zips throngs of travelers from Tokyo to Kyoto.

We’ve spent 5 weeks traveling around Japan in the spring and fall seasons, and during both trips we made sure to visit Nara ...

We purchased a pleasingly oversized Rand McNally road atlas from a petrol station and as we set out I settled into the passenger seat, map spread across ... Towards the end of our trip, having roamed ...

Of course, there are countless other countries—each with its own distinct flavor—just waiting to be discovered. Consider ...

What intrigued us most was the chance to hike the caldera even in winter ... nearby port of Kurihama on one of the Tokai Kisen ferries. (From central Tokyo, it’s a two-hour trip.) Two young women at ...

Everyone goes to Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. Why not try spots like the bustling port of Yokohama or the serene monasteries of ...

The Kyoto city assembly approved Tuesday sharply raising the lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations in the ancient Japanese capital, with a maximum rate of 10,000 yen for ...