The coastline here is as beautiful as it is battered, in a region that has traditionally seen few tourists. But that’s starting to change.

Most of the route is now on modern roads, but the section that runs through the Gifu prefecture is an ideal two-to-three-day walk, plunging you back into rural Japan of the feudal era. I begin my ...

“That was so Japanese,” Bill said of her unseen performance. “Everything indirect, through shades, through suggestion.” After dinner I took a walk. (It was becoming a habit.) Like many ...

Under an ordinance that goes into force on Oct. 1, users are required to stand still and not walk up or down ... according to data by the Japan Elevator Association, an industry group.

Honoring Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro, who used to stroll here on his commute to Kyoto University in the early 20th century, the Philosopher's Walk is a roughly mile-long pathway along the ...