"But as I've spent more time in the mountains, I've realized that ... videos about off-the-beaten-path destinations in Japan — lives in the house with his partner, who's Japanese.

Ono once described Karuizawa as “an old summer resort in Japan very much like the Hamptons, except it’s in the mountains.” For our family, having a house in Karuizawa represented the ...

This bright red mountain train has three cars and the steepest climb in Japan. On the 40-minute ride ... and contemporary painters, even a doll house museum. In this spirit of creativity, and ...

Buffeted by wild winds and blanketed in deep powdery snow throughout winter, the remote island of Rishiri off Japan's north-western ... "It is really many mountains wrapped into one and, if ...

The resort town of Yamanaka Onsen, about 325 miles west of Tokyo, claims a long history of tourism: Japanese have been drawn to its restorative hot springs ringed in misty mountains for some 1,300 ...