While in Uonuma no Sato, you can try a cup of snow-aged coffee at the Yukimuro Coffee adjacent to the brewery’s yukimuro. Elsewhere, in the prefecture’s capital, Niigata City, Suzuki Coffee operates a ...

Snow measured in feet is blanketing parts of Japan this week, with snowfall rates among the highest on record. This is due, in part, to a phenomenon called sea-effect snow. What happened: Beginning ...

Every morning at six, the day’s first Kita-Shinano train staggers out of Nagano station and begins its 47-minute, seven-stop excursion into neighbouring Niigata. The winter snow gathers on the land in ...