Activities Mount Takasaki Monkey Park The Takasaki Monkey Park is a popular monkey reserve at the foot of Mount Takasaki, a 628 meter high mountain along the coast between Beppu and Oita...
Activities Mount Kiro Observatory Park There is no better way to see the Kurushima Kaikyo Bridge and its stretch of the Seto Inland Sea than from the top of Mount Kiro, at the southernmost..
Outdoors Your Guide to the Hells of Beppu Veronica Carnevale Here, rising hot spring steam intertwines with city life and the verdant mountains
Activities Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route Opened in 1971, the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is a mountain sightseeing road that connects Toyama and Nagano Prefectures. Despite being only 37 kilometers..
Activities Inside Nagasaki’s Tea World with Nagasaki Ikedoki T... Joanna Ligon Farmers carefully maintain the fields throughout the year—pruning, fertilizing
Activities Discovering Coastal Chiba: Seafood Traditions and S... Joanna Ligon provide an ikejime-like effect (a quality-preserving processing method) to maintain
Activities Mizu-no-Mori Water Botanical Garden Also known as Kusatsu Aquatic Botanical Garden, the Mizu-no-Mori Water Botanical Garden is a wonder for flora enthusiasts. Located in Shiga Prefecture..
Activities Oze National Park Opened on August 30, 2007, Oze National Park encompasses the Ozegahara swamps and the mountains in the Oze area, which were formerly part of Nikko National..