Regions

The brilliant green coastline along the Bay of Plenty seems to stretch on forever. Void of man-made objects other than the road i...

"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...

It snowed heavily all night. The last beer and sake were tossed back around 10 p.m. and everyone called it an “early one” in anti...

Myoko Backcountry Ski School (MBSS) began with a bunch of locals who simply liked going into the mountains. It is now in its 22nd...

There are so many local breweries in Japan with the name “kogen” (mountain heights) in them (off hand, I can think of at least si...

It’s February 2008 in Niseko, and the number of new investors rivals the amount of snow. Land prices in central Hirafu have doubl...

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