This National Park in Japan Has Hundreds of Hot Spring Pools and the Country’s Most Popular Onsen

Known for its Olympic-worthy mountains, alpine forests, and highlands crossed by rivers and ponds, Joshin Etsu Kogen National ...

My journey through Japan in search of the secrets of the samurai

Hisyo Ishida is looking at me with undisguised disappointment. I cannot blame him. His movements are sharp where mine are clumsy. His hair is pulled into a neat topknot where mine is flapping in my ...