From snowshoeing across frozen lakes in Hokkaido and cycling through subtropical Kyushu to “leaf peeping” your way through ...

2 hours from 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 monkeys at Joshinetsu Kogen National Park in Nagano, Japan, are not afraid to approach humans, and they’re known to deliver a slap to human paparazzi who get out of line. (Jennessa Davey ...

Snow monkeys usually call the snowy areas of Japan their home. But two newborns are chilling at a South Dakota zoo where a total of 16 members of the endangered species now thrive.