Category
Camping
Mountain and LandCamping
From auto-camping to glamping and clean, well run campgrounds to free camping areas, Japan is a great place to camp out in the forests, lakes and foothills of the many mountainous areas around the country. No matter where you are in Japan there are camping and campgrounds options nearby.
Autumn
Into the Mystic
While you probably won’t encounter an elusive river sprite in the highlands of the Northern Japan Alps, you may feel a bit lightheaded from the refreshing thin air, remarkable vistas and mystical aura of the mountains and valleys in Kamikochi.
Camping
Tokyo Escapes: Summer Camping
Tokyo summers can be stifling—luckily it’s easy to escape the city for a cool break from the heat.
Sponsored
Niseko Untapped
Niseko draws thousands of visitors each year to Japan’s northernmost island in search of the steep and deep. Yet when these famed...
Features
Spotlight: Kamikochi
There’s arguably nowhere more breathtaking than Kamikochi in Japan’s Northern Alps.
Craft Beer
From the Fish Market to the World Market
From back porch home-brewing to a state-of-the-art sustainable-minded brewery on the Izu Peninsula, Baird Beer has grown up conti...
Beyond the Brand
Beyond the Brand: 100 years of Haglöfs
In the year 1914, a lone man in a cabin in the woods—literally, a tiny shack in the Dalarna backcountry—sewed up a bunch of backp...
Miyazaki
Night Dancing with a Kyushu Sun Goddess
According to myth, Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, and her brother, Tsukiyomi, the Moon God, once soared across the sky together. Aft...
Hiking
Yama Girl Revival
Nearly a decade ago I became inspired to hike the “hyakumeizan,” Japan’s one-hundred most revered mountains. I had bagged 91 peak...