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Japan’s new travel route literally through the mountains links two other beautiful alpine courses

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 29, 2026
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Tateyama Kurobe Alpen Route and Kurobe Gorge Railway will finally be connected this fall.

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• Japan
• (awesome • beautiful • cool • Hokuriku • Ishikawa • Japan travel • Kurobe Gorge Railway • Kurobe Unazuki Canyon Route • Mountains • nature • Tateyama Kurobe Alpen Route • tourism • Toyama • travel)

How to get into this beautiful off-the-beaten-path Kyoto temple earlier than the general public

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 29, 2026

Getting up early and heading outside the regular tourist circuit could lead to an unforgettable experience this autumn.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • culture • fall colors • Japan travel • koyo • Kyoto • maple • nature • red leaves • temples • tourism • travel • Yamashina)

Gang of angry monkeys surrounds and attacks Japanese man in hot spring town

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 20, 2026

Morning walk interrupted by notorious Troop T1.

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• (animal attacks • animals • COK • crazy • monkeys • nature • weird • Yugawara)

Bear spotted near most popular hiking trail on Tokyo’s most popular hiking mountain

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 18, 2026

Officials calling for caution as Mt. Takao enters peak hiking season.

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• (animals • bears • COK • hiking • Japan travel • Mountains • Mt. Takao • nature • outdoors • tourism • travel)

Free Mt. Fuji helicopter rescues for offseason hikers are ending in Yamanashi

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 18, 2026

Governor asks offseason hikers to “stop waving around their freedom to climb the mountain as if it’s the only thing that matters.”

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• (hiking • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji climbing season • nature • outdoors • rescue • society)

The confusing enjoyment of our day-trip bus tour from downtown Tokyo to Yamanashi [Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 14, 2026

This bus tour wasn’t exactly what we’d expected, but it turned out to be something we wanted.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • bus tours • buses • COK • flowers • food • fruit • Heidi • Japan travel • nature • peaches • shingen mochi • SNJO • Sunflowers • sweets • tourism • travel • Yamanashi)

Mt. Fuji may soon require off-season climbers to register with government or pay for their rescues

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 13, 2026

The question of whether it’s illegal to hike Mt. Fuji in the off-season is complex, and so is the question of who should pay for it.

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• (hiking • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji climbing season • nature • outdoors • society)

Japan’s first fall color forecast for 2026 is here!

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 3, 2026

Maps and predicated peak color dates to help you plan your autumn journey to see Japan’s natural beauty.

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• Japan
• (COK • fall colors • fall leaves • ginkgo trees • icho • Japan travel • kaede • koyo • maples • momiji • nature • outdoors • red leaves • tourism • travel)

Japan’s Rabbit Island in danger of becoming Boar Island, tourists asked to follow feeding rules

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 17, 2026

One of the cutest places in Japan needs visitors’ help keeping rabbit food, and rabbits themselves, from becoming boar food.

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• (animals • boars • COK • cute • Ehime Prefecture • environment • nature • Okunoshima • Rabbit Island • rabbits • tourism.Japan travel • travel • wild boars)

This beautiful Okinawa beach gives you the best of both worlds when visiting the prefecture [Pics]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 13, 2026

Minnajima combines remote-island beauty with main-island-stay convenience.

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• (beaches • beautiful • COK • Japan travel • Minna Island • Minnajima • nature • Okinawa • outdoors • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Beautiful off-the-beaten-path spot near samurai castle in rural Japan looks like a Monet painting

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 12, 2026

Here’s today’s reason not to skip Gifu in your Japan travel plans.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • castles • COK • fish • Gifu • Gifu Prefecture • Inuyama • Inuyama Castle • Japan travel • koi • Monet • nature • outdoors • SNJO • tourism • travel)

This beautiful rural Japan river is a great alternative to touristy summer retreats [Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 9, 2026

The Enbaragawa River’s lighting and subsurface flow put it on a different level of natural beauty.

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• (beautiful • COK • Gifu • Gifu Prefecture • heat • Japan travel • nature • outdoors • rivers • SNJO • tourism • travel)

Kochia calling: Right now is a great off-season season to visit this beautiful Japanese park

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 6, 2026

Before Hitachi Seaside Park turns red for autumn, it’s got a beautiful summer color to show you too.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • Hitachi • Hitachi Seaside Park • Japan travel • kochia • nature • outdoors • parks • tourism • travel)

99-year-old woman rescued while attempting to climb Mt. Fuji

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 23, 2026

Three-day ascent attempt comes to an abrupt end.

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• (climbing Mt. Fuji • Fujinomiya Trail • hiking • hiking Mt. Fuji • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • nature • outdoors)

Foreign hiker on Mt. Fuji loses consciousness and dies, becoming climbing season’s second fatality

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 22, 2026

European man lost consciousness during Mt. Fuji hike with his son.

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• (climbing Mt. Fuji • Fujinomiya Trail • hiking • hiking Mt. Fuji • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • nature • outdoors)

Climbing season officially opens for Japan’s Mt. Hiyoriyama, the shortest mountain in the country

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 8, 2026

Ceremony marks official start of climbing season for this six-step summit trail.

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• (COK • crazy • funny • hiking • Mountains • nature • outdoors • video • weird)

Tochigi man shares his family’s process for creating 16 years worth of rice paddy art

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 8, 2026

The Nakano family opens a second rice paddy art site this year and shares more about the process that goes into their annual labor of love.

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• (art • beautiful • COK • cool • Nasushiobara • nature • process • rice • rice field • rice paddy • Tochigi Prefecture • viewing)

Mt Fuji installs new emergency shelters ahead of the 2026 climbing season

• Oona McGee
  Jun 30, 2026

New reinforced shelters are designed to protect climbers from volcanic eruptions, falling rocks and lightning.

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• Japan
• (2026 climbing season • climbing • climbing Mt. Fuji • Fuji • Fujisan • hiking • mountain climbing • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • Mt. Fuji climbing season • nature • outdoors • safety • tourism • travel • Yoshida Trail)

Let’s hike a Japanese mountain (that isn’t Mt. Fuji) – Mt. Tsukuba[Photos]

• Casey Baseel
  May 16, 2026

A beautiful, highly customizable hike that’s an easy day-trip from Tokyo.

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• Japan
• (COK • hiking • Ibaraki • Mountains • Mt. Tsukuba • Natsuno Futon • nature • outdoors • SNJO • travel.tourism.Japan travel • Tsukuba • Tsukubasan)

Hundreds of rose bushes in bloom at Tokyo’s off-the-beaten-path, next-to-the-tracks flower street

• Casey Baseel
  May 16, 2026

Local road goes from trash dump to treasure.

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• Japan
• (Arakawa Line • COK • flowers • nature • Otsuka • Otsuka Rose Road • Otsuka Rose Street • roses • SNJO • Tokyo Sakura Tram • trains • urban exploring)

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