On a trip to Japan, I hustled through Tokyo for a few days, seeing all sorts of sights but feeling as if I was barely scratching the surface of the vast city. So it was a relief to move on to the ...

A journey through Takayama reveals a city where premium wagyu shapes both culture and identity From raw beef sushi to ...

What starts as a simple Wagyu food tour quickly becomes a deep dive into one of Japan’s most devoted beef cultures. Hidden in ...

2005-10-02 04:00:00 PDT Takayama, Japan-- We catch the soft scuffle of cloth slippers in the morning stillness as we walk the narrow pedestrian lane, its sides etched by rainwater gutters and fronted ...

The village of Takayama sits in the heart of the Japanese Alps, a six-hour train journey from Tokyo. It was settled centuries before Christ, and it has long been known for its carpentry; many of Japan ...

And this is the first thing, when coming to the thought of Japan, everyone will think of two cities: Tokyo and Kyoto. However, outside of these two well-known cities, there is Takayama, a mountain ...