The surge in tourism has piled pressure on several popular onsen areas across the country, from Ureshino in the west to ...

HAKODATE, Hokkaido -- The annual "Monkey Mountain Hot Spring" event ... The spring water is sourced from Yunokawa Onsen hot spring and is mixed with additional water to maintain a temperature of ...

Hakodate, Hokkaido, is famous for hotels that serve incredible breakfasts, with competition so fierce it was once dubbed the ...

From a step-by-step guide about how to take an onsen, to information about what to wear and a few taboos too, it’s time to find out everything you need to know about visiting an onsen in Japan. There ...

Trench off Hokkaido contains energy that could trigger a 9.0 earthquake According to researchers from Japan's Tohoku and Hokkaido universities and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and ...

Researchers from Tohoku and Hokkaido universities and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology released the results of their five-year study of the Chishima Trench off Hokkaido.

The 212-kilometer extension between Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto in southern Hokkaido and Sapporo, the island's capital, has been complicated by a labor shortage in the construction sector and geological ...