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... Travel by Hikari and Sakura trains will require an extra hour and another transfer at Shin-Osaka Station. More info www.city.beppu.oita.jp/01onsen/english/ GINZAN ONSEN, YAMAGATA Photo: YFGEO/Pixta In the hot spring area of Ginzan Onsen ...

... From 2016, Japan will inaugurate an annual August 11 Mountain Day public holiday. Good news for overworked salarymen who might just need a lie in, but the government hopes the day off will encourage people ...

... If Tokyo is the friend who rushes you between sights and social engagements to a turbo timetable, Fukuoka is the relaxed southern cousin who sits you in a sunny spot, pours you a beer and ...

... Japanese adherents of Shinto number around 106 million, while those regarding themselves as Buddhists amount to 95 million. This tally of around 200 million is not bad for a country with a population of less ...

... Instead of suffering in the crowded concrete of Tokyo, hit the dusty trails of the many mountainous regions that hug the prefecture's border. The following day hikes provide excellent vistas, close encounters with nature ...

... For 150 years, from the 12th to the 14th centuries, Kamakura was Japan's military and administrative capital. The factors that made it a strategic location for the first military government –hills ...