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The rather poetic snow country (雪国, yukiguni) can refer to any place with heavy or deep snows and is generally understood as a reference to the Sea of Japan side of Honshū (Japan's main island) and the area encompassed by the Japanese Alps, a series of mountain ranges that make up the island's backbone.
Sukayu Onsen is the snowiest inhabited place on Earth with an average yearly snowfall of 17.6 m (58 ft) and a winter season record of 23.7 m (78 ft). It also holds the record of having the highest snow depth ever recorded at a JMA certified weather station of 566 cm (18.57 ft), recorded on February 26, 2013. [2]
The Sapporo Snow Festival (さっぽろ雪まつり, Sapporo Yuki-matsuri) is a festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan, over seven days in February. Odori Park , Susukino , and Tsudome are the main sites of the festival.
Straddling Japan’s Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, the 3,776-meter Mount Fuji is a UNESCO World Heritage site and an icon of Japan. It’s usually coated in snow for most of the year until ...
Heavy snow in large swaths of Japan has killed 17 and injured more than 90 people and left hundreds of homes without power, disaster management officials said Monday. Powerful winter fronts have ...
Weather officials in Japan predicted more heavy snow Thursday, a day after nearly 800 vehicles were trapped for hours on an expressway in central Japan. Japan's Meteorological Agency said as much ...
Naeba Ski Resort – With the longest aerial lift in Japan, 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi). Muikamachi Hakkaisan Ski Area; Muikamachi Minami Ski Area; Myōkōkogen Ski Resorts - includes ski areas in both Niigata and Nagano (in Niigata) Akakura Kankō Resort Ski Area; Akakura Onsen Ski Area – The oldest ski resort in Japan, from 1937.
Areas of sea-effect snow showers returned to areas that have been hit hard by snowfall in recent weeks. A couple of storms brought milder conditions to central Japan last week as they swept across ...