Japan’s landscape is often described as mountainous, narrow, and shaped by water. Rivers cut through that landscape in ...

Mount Fuji is Japan’s highest mountain at 3,776 meters, and an internationally recognized icon. Overall, the country has more than 20 mountains with an elevation of more than 3,000 meters, all of ...

Located in the heartland of Niigata Prefecture, the city of Nagaoka is blessed with an abundance of water. It lies on the banks of the Shinano River, the longest river in Japan, which is fed by ...

Somei yoshino trees were planted along a 10-kilometer embankment to commemorate the completion of the Ōkōzu Canal—built to control flooding along the Shinano River. One highlight of the canal’s ...