The cherry blossom season announcement comes just a day after Japan witnessed its first bloom of the year in the southwestern ...

Tokyo cherry blossoms bloom earlier than other Japan regions - Spring has officially arrived in Japan draped in hues of pink ...

The ward has some of Tokyo's most famous tourist spots, such as Roppongi and Tokyo ... districts as the number of foreign visitors to Japan increases. In 2024, the metropolitan government ...

Tourists and Japanese locals marvelled at Tokyo’s cherry trees on Monday at the peak of the annual blossom season that ...

An advisory panel to Japan's farm ministry has proposed a target to triple tourist food consumption to 4.5 trillion yen by 2030, as it seeks to use record visitors to overcome falling demand in the ...

Planning a trip to Otaru, Japan? New rules are in place for tourists, especially at popular photo spots. Here’s what you need ...

Just an hour from Tokyo, the upscale resort town of Karuizawa is made for forest bathing and farm-to-table dining ...

Other than Kyoto, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka, we hope to encourage tourist[s] to visit these ... experienced overcrowding at popular spots, according to a Japan Tourism Board Foundation and the ...

TOKYO -- Japanese retailer Don Quijote is making a new play for international visitors, opening its first store set up only with vending machines offering items from instant ramen to ...

OITA (Kyodo) -- On a small island in southwestern Japan with a population of only around 1,700, Australian John Widmer, reputed as the island's only foreign resident, runs a cafe hoping it will ...