While day-tripping in the United States, I expect misadventure, perhaps even seek it out, as with the benefit of hindsight and a few drinks, these calamities, rarely of my own making, become ...

As winter storms rush though Japan’s Zao Mountain Range, trees are transformed into incredible “snow monsters.” ...

Japan boasts some of the best skiing in Asia. Yamagata prefecture, on the country's chilly west coast, is home to the Zao Mountain ski resort, featuring a near-limitless supply of deep powder. But ...

At wintertime, seasonal winds blowing in from the Japan Sea transform the trees of the Zao mountain range into "snow monsters", or Zao Juhyo. The rime-covered trees are a popular tourist ...

It is one of the oldest known photos of juhyo, second only to the one shot on the Zao mountain range by a member of Keio University’s mountaineering club two years prior in 1921.

Akiho Onsen and Naruko Onsen are two famous hot spring towns in Japan's northern Miyagi Prefecture, but also recommended is the Togatta Onsen in Zao. Located on a 330-meter-high plateau this area has ...

According to Yanagisawa, the lab was formerly located at the top of 1,736-meter-high Mount Jizo, one of the peaks of the Zao mountain range in Yamagata Prefecture.

A rescue team comprising members of the Zao ski patrol unit and the city's mountain rescue squad found the woman inside the Mount Kumano hut in Kawasaki, Miyagi Prefecture, at around 8:05 a.m. on ...

Completed in 2020 in Yamanobe, Japan. Hananashi-Goya is located on a gently sloping hillside overlooking Yamagata City, with a view of the Zao mountain range to the east. The town used to ...