Every February, Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, hosts one of the world's great winter festivals, with huge snow and ice sculptures in Odori Park and the Susukino district. It draws around 2 million visitors.
Book accommodation well ahead. Sapporo is also famous for miso ramen, beer and fresh seafood. Ski resorts such as Niseko and Rusutsu are about 2 hours away.
The Niseko Company rents out more than 30 private chalets, houses and villas in Hirafu, the main village at Niseko United, Japan's best-known powder …
A remote peninsula on the north-east tip of Hokkaido, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with brown bears, deer and sea eagles.
The lavishly decorated shrine and mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, in a cedar forest in the mountains north of Tokyo,…
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.
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.
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…
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