These themed trains in Japan include Pikachu, Hello Kitty, dinosaurs, and one specially dedicated to drinking sake.

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

The country’s aesthetics and inventions have spread far. It still remains a singular place.

In the town of Kushimoto in Wakayama Prefecture, the southernmost part of Honshu, the flowers of Japanese radish that grow wild on the seaside bloom, giving a full-fledged sense of spring.

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Hirou Shrine’s object of worship is famous for the large volume of water and for having the country’s highest drop off Located in the verdant primeval forest is a single waterfall. Each second, one ...

In the volcanic meanders of Japan, in the heart of the Owakudani Valley, a curiosity attracts thousands of visitors every ...

Legend has it that this temple got its start during the reign of Emperor Nintoku, when an stranded Indian priest found a Kannon Bosatsu statue in the waters of Nachi Falls, placing the statue here. Up ...