Avoid the tall trees of Japan's most popular spot, Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, and opt for lesser-known forest retreats in ... lowest seasons instead. In the winter, travelers undeterred by cold ...

For the first time in nearly 120 years, "hachiku" bamboo is flowering all across Japan. The hachiku bamboo plant expands by sending out underground stems, which can grow at a rate of about 2 ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa ...

Fascinatingly, this is also the final resting place of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate known for reunifying Japan. History isn’t all ... like summer canyoning and winter ...

One Hong Kong-based Malaysian family felt that way about the soothing, otherworldly bamboo forests of Kyoto, Japan. But since it wasn’t practical for Daniel Tan, a stay-at-home dad, and See See ...

Makino Mantaro, in the Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK ... the end of the last glacial period, and the forest today is primarily unchanged from 8,000 years ago. That was the Jomon Period when ...

in Japan. This expression is also used as “kigo,” or a seasonal phrase for haiku poetry. Conversely, spring is “take no aki” (autumn of bamboos). Bamboo leaves turn yellow in this season ...