This multimodal route through the country’s Northern Alps is a great alternative to the similar journey around Mount Fuji — and one which attracts far fewer visitors.

AN instructive physiographic map or diagram of Japan on a scale of about 80 miles ... The outer zone of Pacific fold mountains appears as a series of well-developed longitudinal ridges and valleys ...

KOBE -- Traces of a small mountain castle dating to medieval ... The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan has been publicly releasing map data since 2023. At the end of this past March ...

Mountains are popular with both ... Note: With changes to the permit application for the contour maps by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Moriya now inserts a sentence in his maps ...

Accompanied by mountain guides, Japan-based writer Ally Hongo walks the mountains of Dewa Sanzan in search of deeper discoveries in the Japanese philosophy of mindfulness and self-discovery.