The snowy capital of the island of Hokkaido offers a quieter alternative to Japan’s congested “Golden Route” of Tokyo, Osaka ...

Major Japanese travel agency JTB Corp. has announced it forecasts 41.4 million foreign visitors to Japan in 2026, an expected 2.8% year-on-year decline, the first in five years. The predicted decline ...

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TOKYO - The Japan Tourism Agency has released a set of pictograms warning against feeding or approaching bears, aimed at preventing bear attacks at tourist destinations. The images are designed to ...

Phone-wielding tourists have been blitzing Kyoto with selfies for years, but we’re finally at a flashpoint. The city is overrun, its temples and shrines suffering from Disneyland-level hordes, its ...

Japan's Gifu Prefecture offers a quieter travel experience away from the overtourism of major cities like Tokyo and Kyoto. Located two hours from Tokyo by bullet train, Gifu is known for its charming ...

Japan’s appeal has been obscured by crowds and the Fomo mentality. But the magic of Japan is still there – we just need to take the effort to look for it. Whenever someone announces they are heading ...

The Japan Tourism Agency plans to launch a subsidy program for destination management/marketing organizations, or DMOs, beyond regional boundaries in a bid to provide intensive support to activities ...

Chinese travelers tend to be big spenders in Japan, so Japanese tourism officials are surely eager for Tokyo and Beijing to find ways to defuse the tensions between the two countries quickly before ...

Chinese visitor growth to Japan slowed in November to its weakest pace in nearly four years, as Beijing curbed travel amid rising tensions over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan.