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 ...

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 ...

The Japan Alps consist of three ranges ... Less than 15km away, on the coast at Toba, pay a visit to an ama diver's hut. Ama, known as "women of the sea", are women divers who employ traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...