Wild snow monkeys soak in natural hot springs to escape the winter ... Matsumoto is just under an hour away from Nagano City by train. It is home to Japan's oldest surviving castle.

The mountainous prefecture in central Japan has been making steady ... of life and experiences with hot springs and saunas. In a Jan. 6 news conference, Nagano Governor Shuichi Abe cited the ...

A total of 754 relay runners covered 118.1km during the torch relay, which made courtesy calls to six different major cities in Japan. The theme of the Opening Ceremony was “Hope,” because the Nagano ...

Plowing began on a scenic Japanese mountain road, famous for its towering “snow walls,” on February 11. The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route links the prefectures of Toyama and Nagano, but is buried under ...

The air is crisp, the snow deep and undisturbed. The Japanese Alps tower around us, beckoning us to their slopes. In central Japan, just under two hours from Tokyo by bullet train, Nagano is known ...