Escape the crowds and discover a quieter Japan at these 12 hotels, from mountaintop ryokan to island hideaways.

Although they accounted for a smaller share of the total, visitors from the Shinetsu region (Niigata and Nagano) saw a significant increase of 64.9 percent. Visitors from Ishikawa and Toyama ...

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Three winters from now, Japan's snowy Myoko highlands in Niigata Prefecture will be home to a $1.4 billion mega-resort built by a Singaporean fund, with hotels charging some $1,350 a night. The ...

There could be nowhere better to come in from the cold. However, the greatest labour is expended on maintaining the onsen (thermal bath); these are found across Japan, often within ryokans.

Less than a week later, on Saturday, the third annual Niigata International Animation Film Festival, focusing on feature-length animated films and running for six jam-packed days, opened its doors ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said Monday it now aims to restart a reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture in the fiscal year 2025, which starts next month.

Restoring a locomotive decommissioned in 1975, three Class-C11 trains started shuttling between Shimo-Imaichi and Tobu-Nikko stations and between Shimo-Imaichi and Kinugawa-Onsen stations in 2022.