This is especially true in the winter. We’re treated to fluffy ... SA: We expect visitors from the U.S. to be drawn to Nagano more as a mountain resort destination. In the past six months ...

Despite being nestled in the mountains, the complex is reachable by bus from Nagano City. In winter, the bus only goes to Chusha, the middle shrine, meaning the last two kilometres to the upper ...

If there is anyone who knows about skiing, it’s Kenji Ogiwara. Before turning to politics and becoming Mayor of Nagano, ...

Even in winter, it’s busy ... The resort town is located in the mountains near Nagano. Good to know: Most onsens that cater to foreigners will have some form of instruction for you, but ...

In late winter, I met my mother and my aunt and traveled to the mountain resort town of Karuizawa, in Nagano Prefecture, a little over an hour from Tokyo by shinkansen. When we stepped off the ...

For the full weekend schedule, see the chart below. For Copper Mountain, Todd Harris will handle play-by-play alongside 1998 Nagano Olympic snowboarder and seven-time Winter X Games medalist Todd ...

The Paralympic torch glows with Mountains of Light ... The theme of the Opening Ceremony was "hope" because the Nagano Games marked the first Paralympic Winter Games in Asia and the last in the 20th ...

Nagano is known for its world-class ski resorts. But while the area’s mountains are undeniably magnetic – they were the stage for the 1998 Winter Olympics – we are not here to carve through ...