Weather News announced that cherry blossom is expected to bloom nationwide earlier than usual. The earliest blooming is seen ...

Spot rare wildlife, soak in a hot spring and sail in a frozen wonderland on Japan’s northernmost island.

Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan - December 01, 2024 Japanese monkeys soak in an open-air hot spring at the Hakodate Tropical ...

Data from the Japan Tourism Agency shows the number of travelers staying overnight in Hokkaido plunged in spring last year due to a COVID-19 state of emergency. But the number of overnight ...

The Tropical Botanical Garden in Hakodate City has prepared a hot spring exclusively for 40 Japanese macaques, as temperatures dropped below minus 5 degrees Celsius. Hokkaido originally had no ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- A unique combination of a tucked-away mountain retreat and Indian curry has become a big attraction for foreign visitors on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido.

Our stage this time is the Tokachi Plain in the eastern part of Hokkaido Prefecture. We enjoy fishing in a tributary that flows into the Tokachi River in early spring. The river, which runs ...

A study by Hokkaido University researchers has shown ... Iron is discharged into the ocean when the drifting ice thaws in the spring. Phytoplankton, as a result, proliferates in the Sea of Okhotsk ...

Taiwan and China in winter and early spring. The research team found glass eels during an investigation of rivers in the Iburi region of Hokkaido from April 2021 to July 2021. It used data on the ...