You've heard of lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes. Check out what a larger sea and bitter cold air helped to generate in ...

Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to ...

Nestled in the heart of the Honshu mountains, Takayama’s nickname is “the little Kyoto of the Alps,” and for good reason: its ...

The contaminated water will be treated again with ALPS before it ... plants in and out of Japan. The Japanese government chose the option to discharge the water into the sea, rather than release ...

hemmed in by the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan, with Greater Tokyo to the east and the nation's historic core of Kansai to the west. Within this region, the mighty Japan Alps loom over thatched ...

With record visitor numbers in 2024 putting strain on Japan's tourist hotpots, here are four places to visit far away from ...

On the other side, towards the south-west and lying at the foot of these peaks, is a narrow, densely populated strip of land called Versilia that then gives way to the Tyrrhenian Sea. The contrast ...

TAKAYAMA, Gifu Prefecture--The Shinhotaka Ropeway aerial tramway has reopened here after a three-month hiatus, offering breathtaking summer views of the Northern Japan Alps. Ropeway No. 2 for ...

There’s so much snow on the ground in Hokkaido, Japan, that it’s blocking the doors and windows of homes and businesses on ...

forming streamers of sea-effect snow that reach parts of Japan, along and west of the Japanese Alps. S ome of the heaviest snowfall on Earth: This proximity to Siberian cold air makes Japan's ...

This is due, in part, to a phenomenon called sea-effect snow ... west of the spine of the Japanese Alps on the largest island, Honshu. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, seven different ...