Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in The air is crisp, the snow deep and undisturbed. The Japanese Alps tower ...

Accompanied by mountain guides, Japan-based writer Ally Hongo walks ... a public bath and a dining hall, where vegetable-based dishes known as shojin ryori are offered. In the Toge area alone ...

Sanrojo Saikan, a former temple boasting an imposing exterior that provided generations of “yamabushi” mountain hermits with all they needed for their rigorous training, offers vegetable ...