Japan is known for its hot springs; Nagato Yumoto is a lesser-known town to visit for relaxation in the steamy waters.

many Japanese will swear their fealty to one that’s off the beaten track – the garden at the Adachi Museum of Art in bucolic Shimane prefecture, a three-hour train trip from Osaka. The US ...

The torii gateways of Motonosumi Shrine in Yamaguchi Prefecture. To the north of Hiroshima, the Chugoku region continues in the prefectures of Shimane and Tottori, which like Yamaguchi offer ...

Yoshida is nestled back in the mountains of Shimane Prefecture in central Japan, abutting the ever-turbulent Sea of Japan. For nearly 700 years, workers around Yoshida made jewel steel in places ...

Aircraft from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, near Hiroshima, are “causing anxiety to the locals” by flying at low altitudes, a spokesman for Shimane prefecture’s Disaster Prevention and ...

Unit 2 of the Shimane nuclear power plant in Japan's Shimane Prefecture was restarted on 7 December, Chugoku Electric Power Company announced. It becomes the fourteenth Japanese reactor - and the ...

UNESCO chose this little cluster of islands off the coast of Shimane Prefecture as a Geopark for its dramatic scenery; think steep seaside bluffs topped by verdant fields with free-roaming horses ...