Escape Japan's more popular tourist hubs and head to a less-visited, mountainous region with festivals and delicious food ...

There is still time to enjoy Japan’s winter delights – from ski runs to spectacular sights of frozen waterfalls – book your trip now.

YUZAWA, Japan >> The Inukko Matsuri (Yuzawa Inukko Dog Festival), a traditional Lunar New Year festival in which people make ...

Yuki Matsuri, Sapporo: the ephemeral art of snow and ice Every year in early February, Sapporo becomes a winter wonderland ... Awa Odori, Tokushima: Japan's biggest dance festival Every summer ...

Japan’s Sapporo Snow Festival, a dazzling showcase of ice and artistry that lures millions to far northern Hokkaido prefecture each winter, almost did not happen this year. A month of record ...

SAPPORO—The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Hokkaido’s most popular winter events ... level snowfalls that were hitting other areas of Japan’s northernmost main island on Feb. 4.

The Sakura Festival began in 1986 to commemorate the naming of Narashino, Japan as Tuscaloosa’s first sister city. The sister ...

Japan can expect a freezing cold winter with lots of snow due to an apparent La Nina weather phenomenon likely to last until the season's end, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced on Nov. 10.