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There I was, heading up another Hokkaido trail, when two people we passed on their way down said, “They are waiting for you at th...

The Bible for any bike trip in Japan is the guidebook “Touring Wave” by Shobunsha Publications. With detailed info on hot springs...

It was my fifth day and mountain number two in Kyushu. Hitching a ride from an onsen in Beppu was easy and, soon enough, I was on...

For most people, March and April is spring. Spring in Japan means welcoming cherry blossoms and warm weather, and it is time to s...

“Oi, let out the rope more!”“Reel in the nets!” The star-filled navy blue sky begins to whiten with daylight, and before long ...

Japanese concrete buildings constructed in the 1980s and apartment blocks built on ski resorts – two of the least likely sett...

The past 24 hours have passed with no sleep for me, bouts of seasickness, fatigue and cold weather, and all the other makings...

Inspired by Heinrich Harrer’s Seven Years in Tibet and his account of the north-face ascent of the Eiger Mountains in The Whi...