One of Japan's few original castles, called the 'Crow Castle' for its black walls, with its keep standing above a moat, with the Japan Alps behind. Climb the steep wooden stairs inside to the top floor.
Matsumoto is the gateway to the Kamikōchi valley, a beautiful alpine area for walking (open April to November). It's about 2.5 hours from Tokyo by train.
A valley in the mountains of Nagano where wild Japanese macaques bathe in a hot spring to keep warm, especially in winter, when snow covers their fur.
A mountain village of gasshō-zukuri farmhouses, with steep thatched roofs like hands joined in prayer, built to shed heavy snow, a UNESCO World Herit…
Japan's highest and most sacred mountain, a near-perfect volcanic cone 3,776 m high, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
One of Japan's three great gardens, created by the lords of Kanazawa over two centuries, with ponds, streams, tea houses and a two-legged stone lante…
A hot-spring resort in the mountains near Mount Fuji, ideal for staying in a ryokan (traditional inn) and bathing in an onsen.
The lavishly decorated shrine and mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, in a cedar forest in the mountains north of Tokyo,…
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