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Picture this: you're standing in an open, snow-dusted field in the mountains of Miyagi Prefecture, and more than a hundred foxes — russet red, silvery gray, and even a few with jet-black "cross" markings — are trotting past you, curling ...

Picture this: it’s before dawn, the temperature is well below freezing, and a bonfire crackles in a snow-covered pine grove. Suddenly, a line of dancers wearing towering, horse-shaped headdresses begins to sway and stomp in perfect...

Picture this: 10,000 dancers moving in perfect rhythm through the streets of a small northern Japanese city, backed by an army of taiko drummers whose thunder you can feel in your chest from two blocks away. This is Sansa Odori, and if y...

Ask most travelers to name a Japanese mountain and you’ll hear “Fuji” before anything else. But two hours north of Tokyo, in a prefecture most foreign visitors skip entirely, stands a volcano that inspired one of Japan&...

If Japan had a hall of fame for samurai history, Tsurugajo Castle would occupy the top spot. Rising above the city of Aizuwakamatsu with its distinctive red-tiled roof and perfectly proportioned white walls, this iconic fortress is not j...

Tucked into a narrow mountain valley where two rivers meet in a spot the distillery’s founder called “the perfect blending ground of Scotland and Japan,” Miyagikyo Distillery is one of the most rewarding — and least cro...