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 ...

Now, apparently, bamboo plants seem to be dying all over Japan around the same time. 02:48 Yes, and in fact, this phenomenon of bamboo dying at the same time occurred during the late 1800s in ...

the first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate known for reunifying Japan. History isn’t all that you can find in Nikko. Catch a shuttle bus with Naoc from Nikko station to arrive at the outdoor adventure ...

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 ...

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 ... 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 ancient ...