Someone once told me that the best festivals in Japan are the ones that are on a fixed date every year. These are the ones with long...

We’ve spent the last couple of days on the fascinating Snow Country Culture Workshop Autumn Edition, during which time we have learned...

Using the surrounding mountains and forests as a source of food has been a tradition in Snow Country for as long as humans have been...

Temperatures are cooling down and the season of summer festivals has almost come to an end for another year. One of the favourite summer...

Katakai is a small village in Ojiya City in Niigata that hosts an amazing fireworks display on the the 9th and 10th of September each...