12 Camping & Trekking Gods & Goddess live in Kamikochi Yoshiko Toyama You can arrive at this amazingly beautiful place after just a 3-hour drive from Tokyo. Get off the Chuo-highway at Matsumoto and..
12 Outdoors Jigokudani Yaen Koen (Monkey Park) George Popescu Jigokudani Monkey Park is the perfect place to catch sight of snow monkey's bathing in an onsen.
6 Activities The Nakasendō: A Journey Through History Alessio Pompeo This article discusses a historic route that connected Kyoto to Edo (present-day Tokyo): the Nakasendō
8 Activities Hiking the Central Alps: Day 1 Steve Morton Experience clouds floating over deep mountain valleys and narrow ridges as you traverse along the Central Alps. This is how day..
Activities The Town That Chestnuts Made Arlene Bastion Chestnuts have sustained Obuse for over 600 years. Chestnut sweets were first created here, and both their historical value and..
Activities Apple Picking in Matsumoto Akira Matsuo Nov 18, 2016 Autumn is the season of beautiful, colored foliage, mushrooms in Nagano's forests, and, of course, the harvesting of fresh..
9 Camping & Trekking Kiso Valley's Tsumago-juku Sandra Isaka Tsumago-juku is a post town along the Kiso Valley's ancient highway, the Nakasendo. Hiking from the next post town, Magome,..
11 Outdoors Shiraito Falls, Karuizawa Peter Sidell Near Karuizawa in Japan's Nagano prefecture, Shiraito Falls is a strikingly beautiful waterfall, with groundwater flowing down..