hokkaido

What do you do if you find yourself in Japan’s powder capital, but you don’t ski? Yesterday you tried lessons with the Can...

My first bike trip came from a desire to see the overland horizon. I headed north to the great landscapes of Hokkaido where a sma...

For most people, March and April is spring. Spring in Japan means welcoming cherry blossoms and warm weather, and it is time to s...

Japanese concrete buildings constructed in the 1980s and apartment blocks built on ski resorts – two of the least likely sett...

“That has blood on it. It must be mine,” says Mr. Watanabe as we pack up our gear on a two-meter square makeshift tent site parch...

Most travelers visit Japan in spring and fall for the mild temperatures and vibrant colors, so the white season is often overlook...

Although the Japanese snowsport scene has yet to really hit the big-time, there’s a large—and growing—number of people outside Ja...

Juggling personal relationships and careers in the arts brought Stefan Bell from his native Hungary to Canada, America, and then ...

About this time last year I did a trip to one of Hokkaido’s great peaks – Mt. Ashibetsu. This hike has one of my favorite huts—be...

“A foreign girl climbing Poroshiri alone? I have lived here 50 years, and the mountain is no joke.” So said the old man at the vi...

There I was in furious winds, hard-driving horizontal rain, looking up at the next section of the hike and wondering what the hel...

It was the fourth day I had been traveling with Hiroshi Sakurai, who I had met while hitchhiking to Mt. Iide a few days before. I...