Hirosaki was our last stop in Tohoku, but we still had one city to go on this adventure: Hakodate, just across the Tsugaru ...

Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence. The shift will bring more of the revolutionary AI technology that Google already has been baking into its dominant search ...

From the very first run of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen on October 1, 1964, until the present day, there has never been a single derailment or collision on the entire full-standard Shinkansen rail ...

Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, is renowned for its abundance of hot springs (onsen). Along with cozy indoor onsen, Hokkaido has many open-air outdoor onsen overlooking its breathtaking natural ...

Sources and notes Tracking map Tracking data is from the National Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The map shows probabilities of at least 5 percent. The forecast is for up to ...

Hokkaido dog puppies, a rare breed of dog native to Hokkaido which is a designated living natural monument of Japan, were recently born and are growing healthily in the home of a dog lover in Sapporo.

Tokyo police have arrested two suspects for allegedly using other people's credit card data to purchase Shinkansen bullet train tickets worth about 700,000 yen, or around 4,500 dollars. Police ...

This page gives complete information about the Okadama Airport along with the airport location map, Time Zone, lattitude and longitude, Current time and date, hotels near the airport etc... Okadama ...

Taiwan's government offered rare details on Tuesday of its wartime food plan, saying it is taking monthly inventories of crucial supplies like rice and making sure they are properly stored across ...

A boy in a baseball cap at the front of a line hopped on to a Nozomi shinkansen train just as the last male passenger in a suit got off. In the evening of Aug. 9, the bullet train bound for Hakata ...

SAPPORO, (Japan): The capital of Hokkaido observed the season’s first snowfall on Sunday (Oct 20), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Sapporo’s first snowfall came 22 days earlier than last ...

Organisers of Saturday's adrenaline-filled trip, less than two weeks before Halloween, touted it as the “world's first haunted house experience on a running shinkansen”. On board one chartered car of ...