In a bid to attract visitors frustrated by Japan’s crowds, one coastal corner of Fukui prefecture offers genuine connection ...

But it was during the pandemic's forced stillness, when the borders shut for three years, that I began venturing deeper into ...

Japan Video, a cultural staple in San Francisco's Japantown for over 38 years, is closing down in May. The store was known for its Japanese and Korean video collection and anime merchandise.

The Waldorf Astoria Osaka has opened its doors just in time for Expo Osaka 2025. The luxury hotel is a new addition to ...

The town is set to levy the first new tax in Hokkaido to mitigate the impact of overtourism. Biei, located in central part of Japan’s northern ... in Biei as a desktop wallpaper.

There also is a fitness center, dry sauna, salt scrub and overhead shower, steam room, and a 225-gallon Japanese Ofuro tub ... twenty2 Wallpaper & Grasscloth, local garden nursery White Flower ...

Residents of Otaru aren’t the only group in Japan getting frustrated about the added attention. In May last year, Fujikawaguchiko, a small town at the base of Mount Fuji, had to erect a large ...

Doha: A delegation from Japan's Onagawa Town, comprising six students from Onagawa Junior High, their teachers, and members of the Onagawa Town Education Committee, recently visited Qatar to ...

A well-known Japanese hot spring town is the latest to take action on overtourism. Ginzan Onsen will begin capping the number of day trippers in town during the winter peak season. The town’s ...

For Oka, he envisions Yoruya as an enduring addition to the town’s future legacy ... Wallpaper* paid it an early visit Wallpaper* checks in at Rosewood Miyakojima: ‘Japan, but not as most people know ...