Called Yuki no Otani, this 500-meter-long pathway cuts through towering snow walls that rise up to 20 meters at the highest point of Japan’s Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route.

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN A giant snow corridor near the otherworldly Mount Tateyama, one of Japan’s three sacred mountains, is reopening to travelers on April 15. Called Yuki no Otani (or Great ...

Residents were trapped in their homes as 6ft deep snow blocked their doors in Japan. Locals were unable to exit their houses as the thick, accumulated snow barricaded their doorways during the ...

This is the amusing moment a resident leapt into 4ft deep snow in Hokkaido, Japan. Footage shows a resilient local jumping onto the thick powder outside his home amid record-breaking snowfall in ...

Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, dubbed the “Roof of Japan,” features 17-meter-high snow walls (55 feet), the result of months of strenuous work by snowplow truck drivers.

TOKYO (AP) — Heavy snow in northwestern Japan since the weekend has left at least three people dead, stranded hundreds of vehicles on highways, disrupted trains and left thousands of homes ...

Just north of Niseko lies another gem. Kiroro Resort is one of the best destinations for families in Japan, with excellent lift infrastructure, plenty of English-speaking instruction and staffing, and ...

Shinkansen, Japan’s bullet train, is the best way to get there.Maya, from the travel outfitter Remote Lands, picked me up at my Marunouchi district hotel, and we walked in our snow boots over ...

Called Yuki no Otani, this 500-meter-long pathway cuts through towering snow walls that rise up to 20 meters at the highest point of Japan’s Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route.

Heavy snow in northwestern Japan has left three people dead, ... Snow piles deep in northern Japan, strands vehicles, 3 dead Show all 5. Your support helps us to tell the story.