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Gunma’s enchanting onsen getaway - long a fan favorite for hot spring lovers in Japan - gains popularity among the foreign commun...

Sitting peacefully at Tokyo’s doorstep, Ibaraki Prefecture often goes unnoticed. Yet local mountain bikers have long been blazing...

The Izu Peninsula is renowned for bringing together a grand variety of hot springs, seafood, woodland delicacies, beaches and fore...

A sun-blackened hand reached out and presented a busted up old bowl filled to the brim with small green fruits. As I looked up, I ...

While Yokohama hardly conjures up images of outdoor activities, a lot of what most visitors do there involves a great deal of walk...

It was my third day out in the South Alps, and I was convinced I was an “ame-onna”  (rain woman) as I had been in my rain ge...

Big Kahuna brings surfing and Hawaiian brotherhood to burned-out businessmen in Chiba.

Riverbeds, tabletop mountains, volcano rim touring—I had heard the rumors about the incredible mountain biking down in Kyushu. Th...