In the depths of winter, the forests of the Zao Mountain Range transform into something almost surreal. The trees no longer ...

Snow is being cleared away from a mountain road in northeastern Japan to prepare for the spring tourist season.

Japan’s islands stretch from tropical beaches to snowy mountains, creating homes for some of the world’s most unique and adorable wildlife. Island isolation has created special species like Japanese ...

While in Uonuma no Sato, you can try a cup of snow-aged coffee at the Yukimuro Coffee adjacent to the brewery’s yukimuro. Elsewhere, in the prefecture’s capital, Niigata City, Suzuki Coffee operates a ...

Faced with soaring ticket prices and bare slopes at many U.S. resorts, Americans are flocking to the island of Hokkaido, which gets up to 50 feet of snow a year.

The tiny macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo has drawn thousands of visitors after melting hearts online.