Gunma

Experience the green season beauty of real Japan with professional and experienced international guides

After a heavy powder season, the snowpacked mountains have fed Japan’s rivers with fast-flowing rapids for some great w...

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

Training and preparation are paramount to playing safe in the backcountry, and recently guides and instructors are putting more e...

  Life in the ‘Queenstown of Honshu’ Work   ★★★     Play     ★★★★...

The Naked Stranger is a culture vulture. He loves ancient stories about Japan. He reads them voraciously. Like the famous sto...

When and how did you first come to Japan?After studying Japanese for six years in New Zealand (five in high school and one in...

It would be nice to say this adventure was based on careful reconnaissance and well reasoned forethought. It was not. Like many b...