Japanese forest grass is typically grown along the edges of walkways and in containers but also looks beautiful around water features and ponds or flowing gracefully over rock walls. If you're ...

Part of the Fuji Five Lakes area, Lake Kawaguchi offers exceptional views of Japan’s most revered mountain ... and the heady mix of subtropical forest, hot springs, and dozens of peaks of ...

9 (tie). Bijin Bayashi Forest (Niigata Prefecture) This hilly forest, made up of a dense growth of 100-year-old beech trees, is considered Japan’s most beautiful forest. It’s especially beautiful in ...

Despite offering some of Japan’s most beautiful scenery ... This partially floods an expansive grove of white willow trees, creating a submerged forest of mysteriously beautiful scenery in which the ...

The island receives the most rainfall of any region in Japan, and its abundant water supply nurtures forests of Yakushima cedar trees—some more than 1,000 years old—and beautiful evergreen ...

For hundreds of years, the island nation of Japan has seen various examples of efforts to conserve its coastal ecosystems, vital to its fisheries. An 1897 law created protection forests to ...

By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief A city in Japan has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help preserve a stretch of pristine forest that inspired Hayao Miyazaki when he was creating his ...