As overtourism strains Japan’s major cities, Gifu Prefecture offers travelers a slower, more intimate way to experience the ...

When people picture Japan, Tokyo's neon avenues or Kyoto's temple paths usually dominate the imagination. Yet a quieter story is unfolding far away from the rush. More Americans are turning to rural ...

That's really great news. Very optimistic article in these pessimistic times. Its really nice to see the Pandemic have a positive effect on Japan for a change. My company allowed us to work from home ...

Mobile apps that help women in the Indian countryside and tiny villages in Japan to open their homes to visitors from across the world are generating incomes, revitalising remote communities and ...

KAWAKAMI, Japan, Nov. 23 (UPI) --Every morning at 6:00 am Yasufumi Shintani goes out to the street in front of his small log house coffee shop, "Coffee Shop Bonkura," in this rural mountain village of ...

The bulk of tourists to Japan take a so-called Golden Route: Tokyo, Hakone, Mount Fuji, Kyoto, and Osaka. But does this give a true taste of Japan’s real flavor? Hida-Furukawa is a small town that, ...

She left France and moved to Japan alone to restore the property and start her own real-estate consultancy. "It's been three years now, but it still feels like a dream," Aguirre said. Coline Aguirre ...

Kimberly and Paul Fradale were living in Tokyo, working at international schools, when they took the leap many an American expat dreams of: buying a large country house for a song and restoring it to ...

NOSTALGIC TRAIN, a “heartrending, mysterious first-person adventure / walking simulator” set in the Japanese countryside, will launch for PC via Steam on June 13 in Japan for 2,000 yen, developer ...