For Olympic climbing’s route-setters, a blank wall is a canvas Climbing will make its debut at Tokyo 2020. ... Poles and other Europeans, as well as a few Japanese. Only two of the 31 are women.

Days 1 & 2 Toyama Prefecture . Board the bullet train at Tokyo Station, and in two and a half hours you’ll have crossed the ...

Tuck into tempura and takoyaki, learn how to make Japanese sweets and join a hashigozake pub crawl. Plan your trip Book your trip on the New Golden Route by getting the Hokuriku Arch Pass , for ¥ ...

Called Yuki no Otani, this 500-meter-long pathway cuts through towering snow walls that rise up to 20 meters at the highest point of Japan’s Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route.

For travellers looking to explore the peaks of Japan, it doesn’t get much better than the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, an extraordinary expedition through the country’s Northern Alps in the ...

The Pacific Cycling Road is one of Japan’s National Cycling Routes, totaling more than 924 miles across six prefectures: Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie and Wakayama.

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). For travellers looking to explore the peaks of Japan, it doesn’t get much better than the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, an ...