a Japanese salt cabin and an amethyst-walled healing room. They’ve turned to one of our favourite spa experts, 111SKIN, for the treatments, as well as Natural Spa Factory which provide home ...

It was difficult to meet new people while staying in Japanese capsule hotels. Hostels were more social.

It’s a 300-year-old onsen town in Japan’s mountainous Yamagata region, lined with traditional inns and Edo-period wooden ryokan shopfronts which are cosily lit with warm street lamps ...

Takamine is a new whiskey made with koji, a mold that’s long been used in Japan for starting fermentation.Credit...Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Supported by By Clay Risen One afternoon ...

International tourism to Japan has exploded in recent years, and while the official figure for 2024 is yet to be released it is now certain to be a new record in excess of the 31.9 million who ...

United States President Joe Biden has blocked the $14.9bn sale of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based US Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel. The move on Friday deals a potentially fatal blow to the ...

A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

(Mainichi/Yuki Motohashi) HAKONE, Kanagawa -- A bar where local geisha entertain customers opened in this hot spring resort town Jan. 23, offering a chance for international and Japanese tourists ...

This place was WORTH the adventure to get there! Here's how I spent 2 incredible nights at the most luxurious hotel in Jozankei, a gorgeous resort onsen located near Sapporo in stunning Hokkaido. Want ...

Discover total serenity at Mercure Toyama Tonami Resort & Spa, where ancient Japanese hot springs meet stunning natural beauty. Set against a backdrop of majestic mountains and flowering gardens, this ...

Two landers owned by US and Japanese companies to carry out separate tests on the Moon's surface. The first minister delivers a rendition of Kimigayo, to welcome Ambassador Suzuki to Wales.