While the word "lantern" may evoke images of red lanterns drifting skyward, like those in Taiwan's Shifen, the lanterns found at the Taoyuan festival more closely resemble the massive floats of Nebuta ...

Tuscaloosa celebrates the Sakura Festival in Snow Hinton Park. The festival celebrates the cherry blossom as a sign of spring ...

Tens of thousands of visitors toured the home of the U.S. 7th Fleet and other U.S. military installations in Japan.

Escape Japan's more popular tourist hubs and head to a less-visited, mountainous region with festivals and delicious food ...

Early signs of spring are popping up with winter bulbs blooming in hyacinths, tulips and daffodils and flowering trees displaying buds on their newly refreshed limbs. The year of 2025 is a special ...

SAPPORO—The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Hokkaido’s most popular winter events ... level snowfalls that were hitting other areas of Japan’s northernmost main island on Feb. 4.

Vacation rentals in Hakuba, Japan can bring in, on average, more than $60,000 a year in revenue for short-term rental ...

We moved our clocks forward, we’re basking in longer (albeit rainy) days this week, and the bird’s nest I discovered on my ...

Plus, there’s a large fireworks display which is rare in winter – fireworks are usually a summer thing in Japan. When is it? The festival takes place every year on December 2 and 3 ...

The first blossoms of the season popped open last week in Tokyo. At the Yasukuni Shrine, a lone Somei Yoshino tree revealed ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival is held every February in Sapporo, Japan, and is one of the most iconic winter event of the country. What started as a one day event in the 1950s when six high school ...