9 Camping & Trekking The Ascent of Mount Kongo Amanda Ho The Kongō Range is a mountain range on the borders of Nara and Osaka Prefectures on the island of Honshu. Standing at 1125 met..
20 Outdoors A Solid-Rock Nature Walk Tristan Scholze A photographic nature tour of the rocky shores near Ohama Campground on Tsunoshima in Yamaguchi.
Camping & Trekking Koon-ji Temple in Saijo Anonymous Koon-ji, Temple No.61, is unusual in that it looks more like a university library than a Buddhist temple. Inside is an equally unusual..
Sports & Fitness Snow-covered Mt. Kintoki Yu Nakao 1213m Mt.Kintoki (金時山) is the highest peak of the outer rim of the Hakone crater. When it’s sunny, you have a magnificent v..
9 Camping & Trekking Kamakura Kinubariyama Hiking Trail Tomoko Kamishima The Kinubari-yama Course (衣張山) has a few fantastic view points, but is relatively unknown to foreigners. The starting point..
9 Camping & Trekking Hike Up Mt. Misen on Miyajima Island Anonymous Mt. Misen is the highest peak on Miyajima Island. The huge boulders on top of this mountain were holy to the Shintoists who built..
18 Camping & Trekking Snow Trekking in Aomori Justin Velgus Awone Shirakami Jyuniko Resort in Aomori offers a snow trekking experience as a separate day trip or as part of a one night ho..
Camping & Trekking Inuyama Historical Museum Annex Chris Glenn The world’s first “robot” was a clockwork wooden mechanical doll propelled by a series of gears and pulleys powered by a wound..