Outdoors Akigawa Valley Kim When people think of Tokyo, their minds may immediately go to busy city streets, packed subway trains, and neon lights galore. That..
7 Outdoors Searching for Ryoma 3: Kirishima Takako Sakamoto Ryoma Sakamoto Series 3: Mt. Kirishima and Kirishima Shrine are the places Ryoma Sakamoto visited with his wife. They are located..
10 Outdoors Ishiuchi Maruyama Ski Resort Rufus Starbuck Ishiuchi Maruyama is a popular ski resort just outside Yuzawa town that has a good variety of slopes, 2 half pipes and several terrain..
6 Outdoors Winter in the Mt Aso region Mandy Bartok Even the mountains of Kyushu see snow in the winter months!
6 Outdoors Sunset at Akashi Kaikyo, Kobe Manish Prabhune Akashi, a small seaside city in Hyogo Prefecture, is famous for its beaches and night viewing of the Akashi-Kaikyo suspension bridge..
11 Outdoors Yokohama's Shinko Park Tomoko Kamishima There are six pleasant parks alongside Yokohama Bay. Shinko Park is wide open to the bay, sitting between Aka-renga Park and Rinko..
12 Outdoors Orchid Sanctuary Dogashima, Izu Adeline Ong Six thousand orchids housed in five observation greenhouses to be viewed and enjoyed.
Outdoors Akan National Park: Hokkaido's Nature at its Best Featured Akan National Park is truly a wonder in all seasons. In winter the lake shines as the water freezes over and the ice-covered crater..