Tohoku

A few hours from the crowds and concrete of Tokyo is a small river where, over the last few years, I have consistently landed a d...

Shang Shang Typhoon's Emi Shirasaki encounters the "King of Tohoku" This issue features travel tips and hometown secrets from ...

It was the fourth day I had been traveling with Hiroshi Sakurai, who I had met while hitchhiking to Mt. Iide a few days before. I...

With a bicycle loaded down with camping gear, I made my way down to Mt. Hakkoda (in Aomori) in search of the true colors of autum...

The mountain trout are there, in Tohoku, thriving in the beautiful streams which flow through beech forests. For the next several...