Hokkaido

The 76th Sapporo Snow Festival, held in Sapporo City, closed on Wednesday. During the eight-day p...

KAMIKAWA, Hokkaido — The annual Sounkyo Onsen Ice Fall Festival has started in Kamikawa, Hokkaido...

SAPPORO — A measles patient stayed in Sapporo and may have come into contact with an unspecified ...

Many visitors from Japan and abroad flock to the Sapporo Snow Festival, where 210 statues carved ...

SAPPORO — A winter festival featuring spectacular ice sculptures began at the Lake Shikotsu hot s...

KASUKABE, Saitama — A new rice cultivation method using the power of beer yeast is attracting att...

SAPPORO — About 7,000 people were forced to spend the night at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido af...

Draft horses train for traditional races known as banei keiba at Obihiro Racecourse in Hokkaido f...

KUSHIRO, Hokkaido — Visitors to Kushiro Zoo in Hokkaido are able to see a polar bear again for th...

KUSHIRO, Hokkaido — A sightseeing steam locomotive that runs through the Kushiro Wetland in Hokka...

Red-crowned cranes display their graceful forms on the snowy grounds of a center in Kushiro, Hokk...

Hokkaido’s Tsurui Village, home to the red-crowned crane, a national Special Natural Monument, is...

Nijo Market in Chuo Ward, Sapporo, bustled on Tuesday with customers shopping for New Year’s ingr...

A 5-year-old boy died on Sunday after his arm was caught in an escalator at a ski resort in Otaru...

Glass kagamimochi ceremonial rice cakes for the New Year are displayed at glass studio GLOW in Ki...