The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is urging caution regarding roads freezing over and traffic disruptions due to ...

I met my mother and my aunt and traveled to the mountain resort town of Karuizawa, in Nagano Prefecture, a little over an hour from Tokyo by shinkansen. When we stepped off the train, the air was ...

At the foot of Mt. Asama, lies Karuizawa, one of Japan's most well-known resort areas. In the late 1880s, foreign missionaries began building holiday cottages in the town to escape Japan's fierce ...

KARUIZAWA, Nagano Prefecture--Karuizawa, one of the oldest and most famous summer resorts in Japan, is taking no chances when it comes to ensuring visitors and tourists remain safe--even in the ...

A rapidly intensifying low-pressure system was unleashing heavy snow and strong winds across much of Japan, stretching from ...

The resort town of Karuizawa in Japan's Nagano Prefecture has announced plans to introduce an accommodation tax next year. It is expected it will be levied on tourists staying at inns, hotels and ...

Nagano’s ‘Davos of the East’ “Some have called Karuizawa ‘the Davos of the East’ for its reputation as a MICE destination” -Susumu Fujimaki, Mayor of KaruizawaNagano is also one of ...

Night - Clear. Winds W at 7 mph (11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 20 °F (-6.7 °C). Sunny with a high of 51 °F (10.6 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 7 mph (6.4 to 11.3 kph). Sunny today with a ...

KARUIZAWA, Nagano Prefecture--To show support for greater inclusion of the LGBT community, a major business lobby will officially participate in next year’s Tokyo Rainbow Pride, one of the ...

Nagano Prefecture, up to 21 cm, and the town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, with 18 cm at most. In the southern Kanto region, the drop in temperatures caused rain to turn into snow, with the ...