The Suwa region of Nagano Prefecture is famed for ... where the trunks are erected as pillars in the four corners of each of the shrine grounds. A highlight of the festival is worshippers riding ...

A natural phenomenon called "Omiwatari," in which ice forming on the surface of Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture splits to ...

Kiyoshi Miyasaka, the 74-year-old chief priest of Yatsurugi Shrine in the prefectural city of Suwa, said that "Climate change and global warming are becoming evident on the lake." Legend has it ...