Japan Railways Group has a number of special rail passes to make train travel cheaper, easier, and by extension, more fun, but one of the most popular, the Seishun 18 Ticket, underwent a number of ...

Tunnels account for about 80 percent of the extended segment, which will pass through areas ... material costs. The Hokkaido Shinkansen, which provides a direct rail link between Tokyo and the ...

Overseas tourists are flocking to lesser-known destinations and novel services in a district on Japan’s northernmost main ...

A photographer, an airline pilot, a ship’s captain and others reveal where you’ll find the most spectacular, intriguing and ...

The bar was mostly empty, but Aaliyah was playing, so I passed the bartender some yen, and after he mixed my drink he ...

Located roughly 2.5 hours from Tokyo by train in Niigata prefecture ... The resort on the northern island of Hokkaido has become a world-renowned winter sports destination on the back of high-end ...

A lmost a century after the Japanese government hired famed Austrian skimeister Hannes Schneider to introduce Alpine skiing ...

A steady drizzle had greeted us the day before when we stepped off the train in the nearby city of ... and knowledge—and now passes them along to visitors. On our five-day retreat, Laila and ...