Kenrokuen Garden is one of Japan’s many gardens that shine in the winter. Japan’s manicured green spaces are more than worth ...

YAMANOUCHI, Nagano Prefecture—Visitors to the popular monkey park here have been delighted ... be seen relaxing in the steaming waters at Jigokudani Yaen-Koen, leaning against rocks and grooming ...

After 17 years, I revisited Jigokudani Onsen in Nagano Prefecture ... The rustic inn (first opened in 1864) nearest the monkey park entrance where I stayed was just as it was back then, cluttered ...

Japan’s team bowed ... No other nonhuman primate lives at such northern latitudes. At Jigokudani Monkey Park, roughly 2,800 feet above sea level and a three-and-a-half-hour drive northwest ...