Vitus Stenhøj Schiøtz from Denmark was overwhelmed in Tokyo but found a home away from home in a ski resort where he can ...

Among them is the small city of Sabae ... “I often get inspiration from very Japanese things, for example, houses, gardens ...

This as-told-to-essay is based on a conversation with Tom Fay, 40, a British outdoors and travel writer who has lived in Japan ... to city life. I'd spent years looking for an old house with ...

Akiko Katayama covers Japanese food ... is simply empty houses other than Kominka and Machiya. These old houses are at risk. For example, according to a survey by the city of Kyoto, there were ...