Welcome to How I Holiday, a series of travel stories and recommendations shared by friends of Urban List from Aotearoa and ...

With rural Japan experiencing severe depopulation, some unstaffed train stations and vacant homes are being transfor ...

Superconductivity, or power transmission with zero electrical resistance, may bring the Chuo Shinkansen maglev rail project ...

Over the past half century, Japan has been hit by many volcanic eruptions, but scientifically those were only considered to ...

Vinyl Delivery Service in east Tokyo’s Skwat Kameari Art Centre is spinning a new narrative for the traditional record store ...

Tokyo is often hailed as one of the best-designed megacities in the world, a marvel of urban planning and infrastructure that ...

Travelers heading to Los Angeles or Japan may benefit from the recommendations of original War member Lonnie Jordan and the ...

Japan’s sidewalk restaurants, known as “yatai,” have almost entirely disappeared—except in Fukuoka, where they’ve undergone a ...

Masamori Tsuboi, managing director of JA Enshu Yumesaki, which falls under the Japan Agricultural Cooperative, believes Shizuoka lags behind Kagoshima when it comes to reinvention. "It is a time ...

The central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka, which has a trail to Mount Fuji, has enacted an ordinance amid risky behavior by some climbers. The new ordinance requires each hiker to pay an ...

SHIZUOKA -- A tea merchant in this central Japan city has launched an original green tea blend inspired by the illustrations on packaging of plastic models, which is a major industry in the city.