YANAGAWA, Fukuoka Prefecture--Taking a boat ride in the depths of winter may be the furthest thing from most people’s minds. But fear not, operators are offering tourists “kotatsu-bune ...

This is probably due to two reasons: for one, the Bikan historical district, with its old wooden houses, looks much like it did a couple of centuries ago and its lovely canal, teeming with swans ...

Sosuke Ikematsu was intrigued to be offered a role in a Chinese film set in Yanagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, his mother’s hometown famed for its network of canals. “Yanagawa” is directed by ...