Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Transformative Travel: I look at how travel can change lives. Note: This story is from 2022. To read about the best places to ...

Travelers to Japan, from and through Japan are getting some big news today: Anyone can now travel to Japan, without a visa. And that's effective today. It's been slow going — or no going — to Japan ...

Can you afford to travel this year? After months of lockdowns and staycations, the sky's the limit for people like Louis Brill. He canceled three trips in 2021 because of the COVID-19 surges, so he ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Will McGough writes about travel destinations and outdoor adventures. This article is more than 3 years old. 35% of people in ...

The city, one of Japan’s most-visited before the pandemic, desperately needs tourism’s money, but it would like to avoid the excesses of Instagram-driven itineraries. Before the pandemic, Kyoto’s ...

As is true throughout rural Japan, many of the once-vibrant villages on Honshu’s Kii Peninsula are aging into nothingness. In the distance: Nachi Falls, with a single uninterrupted drop of 436 ...

Japanese travelers have been grappling recently with a problem: the absence of visa-free travel to China. Before COVID-19, Japanese did not need a visa to enter China, but Beijing suspended that ...

We have put together a Japan travel guide to assist you in planning your vacation to Japan. In this best places in Japan travel guide we show you the top attractions. This Japan travel video goes ...

Visitors walk along a shopping street at the Asakusa district on June 10, 2022, in Tokyo. Credit: AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko On October 11, Japan finally allowed international visitors to enter the ...

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Japan is on alert after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck its northern regions late on Monday, prompting tsunami warnings and a rare government advisory about the possibility of a “megaquake” over the ...