Walk Japan’s five-day Nakasendo Way: The Kiso Road walk costs 256,000 yen (about $2642) a person twin share, and includes all meals, luggage transfers, entrance fees and travel from tour start to ...

Hiking on the Nakasendo trail in the Gifu and Nagano Prefectures of central Japan, I encounter more Buddhist ... The 331-mile trail in Kiso Valley provides respite with its brawny cedar and ...

In the 1830s, at the tail end of Japan’s flourishing Edo ... a string of 17th-century towns in the Kiso Valley, which straddles the Gifu and Nagano prefectures. The Nakasendō at its full ...

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Kisoji is an old road that runs through Kiso in Nagano Prefecture ... with feudal lords from all over Japan using it to get to Tokyo to serve the shogun during the Samurai period.

Nagano Prefecture, a mountainous region in central Japan just a train ride away from Tokyo, offers all kinds of opportunities for outdoor adventure. Although it’s not far from Tokyo, Nagano is a ...

Students at the municipal Fukushima Elementary School in Kiso, Nagano Prefecture ... number of elementary and junior high schools in Japan moving away from a traditional whole-class teaching ...

Once believed extinct in the Central Japan Alps, rock ptarmigans hatched at a zoo were transported to a mountain in Nagano Prefecture ... near the summit of Mount Kiso-Komagatake.