Scouring websites like Japan Guide and forums like Reddit, we've found the best of them. A note to readers, the word "hama" is Japanese for beach, and each beach's location shows the prefecture, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kerama Islands are found in Keramashoto National Park, southwest of Okinawa, Japan, and are a famously good spot for diving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sunset at Shirahama's picturesque beach front is a local highlight not to be missed. Photograph by André Zerbe / Koworu, Getty ...

Snow on the sand, waves in motion—Japan’s winter beaches reveal one of the world’s rarest coastal spectacles. Japan's northern and western coasts feature rare snow-covered beaches in winter Hokkaido ...

Home to frogs with Wolverine claws, primitive rabbits, and stunning beaches with crystalline waters, Japan's lesser-known tropical islands rival the Galápagos.

There are many good reasons to guzzle down a Japanese hotpot. One being: it’s delicious. However, fatigue from having kayaked in 32C temperatures through mangrove forests is rarely one of them. Writer ...