"It matched all my expectations. It was huge, maybe a bit too huge," Coline Aguirre said about the house she bought in Japan.

Japan's super-speed bullet train is to offer passengers a chance to soothe their tired feet as they zip through the countryside, in a carriage equipped with footbaths.

No charms at all? Would never ever live in the countryside in Japan. The locals are far too insular and xenophobic To be fair, I encountered that in the countryside in my home country of the UK ( ...

NOT CLINGING TO TOKYO Premier Suga, from rural Akita prefecture in the north, made the revitalisation of Japan's countryside one of his key goals. Despite a lack of jobs and infrastructure to support ...

Premier Suga, from rural Akita prefecture in the north, made the revitalisation of Japan’s countryside one of his key goals. Despite a lack of jobs and infrastructure to support them, local ...

When the coronavirus outbreak caused rice and instant noodles to disappear from supermarket shelves in Tokyo this year, Kaoru Okada, 36, decided to leave the capital because he was worried about ...

In Japan, the odds of a Japanese person being nice and receptive to a non-Japanese person are basically 50/50. When you go out to the countryside though (and I mean real countryside, not Mount Fuji), ...

The bulk of tourists to Japan take a so-called Golden Route: Tokyo, Hakone, Mount Fuji, Kyoto, and Osaka. But does this give a true taste of Japan’s real flavor? Hida-Furukawa is a small town ...

I was recently asked if it is better to move to the countryside in order to learn real Japanese. My answer was, "Wakaran!" ("I don't know!") I moved to a small island in the Seto Inland Sea in the ...

PC Japanese countryside-set adventure game NOSTALGIC TRAIN launches for PC via Steam on June 13 in Japan Explore a Japanese countryside created in Unreal Engine 4.