YAMAGATA--The capital of Yamagata Prefecture has slurped its way to defending its honorable title of having the “No.1 ramen consumers in Japan.” According to a household economy survey released by the ...
We travel to Miyagi and Yamagata, where nature is most colorful in early summer. We taste shijimi clams and bamboo shoots, ...
A surge on Japan’s Tokyo–Kyoto–Osaka corridor is redirecting travel interest to Yamagata Prefecture, as more than 30% of ...
YAMAGATA--If the walls of a local post office building here could talk, they would evoke memories of daily community life ...
Sake is produced in each of Japan’s 47 prefectures, but Yamagata is the only one to receive its own “geographical indication” —a nationally registered appellation, recognized by the World Trade ...
Yamagata, the capital of the prefecture bearing the same name, is located about 400 kilometers away from Tokyo but is easily accessible from Japan’s capital, around two and a half hours on the ...
A grand project to build a 23-kilometer tunnel for the Yamagata Shinkansen is underway. In October, Yamagata Prefecture and East Japan Railway signed a memorandum of understanding for construction of ...
TSURUOKA, Yamagata -- As bear attacks continue across Japan, one pattern especially common in northeast Japan's Tohoku region ...