Travel

If you are tired of battling the crowds at the airport during Golden Week, there are plenty of ways to celebrate the spring holid...

Travelers flock to Okinawa’s islands for sun, sand and the undersea attractions. Ishigaki has manta ray stations, Yonaguni submer...

Unfamiliar names on a travel itinerary are a beautiful thing. Summoning my best college Spanish, I read them aloud. “Puerto Montt...

Time is a fickle creature, sometimes creeping along, other times so fast you can’t keep up. There are many ways to measure time, ...

There was a time, several decades ago, when the humpback whales stopped coming to Okinawa. Today, hundreds return each winter, an...

About 180 kilometers into the mission, the gravity of the situation pulled me down like a lead weight toward the thick ice and th...

Over the past two years, Minakami-based trail runner Timo Meyer has made a name for himself on the international trail running sc...

It was a cold January evening in 1618. The guard shivered, stifled a yawn and shifted his weight from right to left in an effort ...