Amid the lush greenery of Ayacho in Kyushu’s Miyazaki Prefecture, where a forest straddles a tropical-temperate zone inside the UNESCO-designated Aya Biosphere Reserve, a natural...
Fourth-year university student Aruha Hamamura begins and ends most days on his surfboard at Kounohama Beach along the coast of Mie Prefecture’s Shima Peninsula, an...
As temperatures dip down to single digits, it’s finally feeling like winter. In terms of Japan’s seasonal culinary calendar, that means one thing: oden....