HAKODATE, Hokkaido -- The annual "Monkey Mountain Hot Spring" event at the Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden here has been drawing increasing foreign visitor numbers in recent years. The December to ...

A solar energy company planning a megaproject near Kushiroshitsugen National Park in Kushiro, Hokkaido, has provided ...

We hot spring lovers are going to show you around some of Japan's more remote "onsen." 01:17 In this episode, we visit three "onsen" in verdant summertime Hokkaido.

Until recently, municipalities were cautious about raising the tax rate because many small-scale hot spring resorts lacked management strength. But such caution is disappearing. Hokkaido has the ...

A study by Hokkaido University researchers has shown ... Iron is discharged into the ocean when the drifting ice thaws in the spring. Phytoplankton, as a result, proliferates in the Sea of Okhotsk ...