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"There are only three real sports: Mountaineering, race car driving and bullfighting." —Ernest Hemingway Hemingway was ont...

There is an area at the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula known as “Kumano” where you can wander through villages, listen to loca...

Surfing powder is nothing new, but custom parks bringing the waves to the mountain is the latest craze. Enter the Surf Ride cultu...

‘It’s the snow, stupid.’ Just ask the Baron. When people (usually the snow-addled locals) ask, “Why do you live in Myoko?” I ofte...

The innate desire to explore the space between what is real and what exists only in our dreams has been part of the human conditi...

Ice bars, ice festivals—even ice hotels. There are plenty of “cool” places to “chill” off the slopes in Japan this winter. IC...

After six productive years in Japan, Rob Volansky made the reluctantly inevitable move back to the States. That was more than a y...

Skiing outside artificially sets limits. This is the foundation for freeskiing which breaks away from the restrictive confines of...