Did You Know a Japanese Village Has More Dolls Than People? The Eerie Charm of Nagoro. Japan’s rural population has been ...

NPR's Ina Jaffe recently met a woman in a little Shikoku village who's been making soba the old-fashioned way for more than four decades, and she sent us this audio postcard. REIKO TSUZUKI ...

Shikoku: From Trump scarecrows to vine bridges, the Japanese island getting creative to attract tourists. ... The village of Nagoro is home to a unique population of handmade, ...

From the vast deserts of Arizona to the icy expanses of Antarctica, there are places on Earth that seem to hide more than just geographic intrigue. These seven locations, easily visible on Google Maps ...

At 140 miles long, Shikoku is the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, about five hours by train from Tokyo, or an hour by plane, and since the 1980s has been connected to the main island of ...

Shikoku: The only place in Japan listed on the New York Times “52 Best Places to Go” A different kind of cultural experience, an opportunity to meet like-minded people By tourismshikoku.org ...

Some of Japan's best onsens are on the southern island of Shikoku. While you can find naturally occurring and human-made onsen ryokans across Japan, a large majority of them are tucked into the ...

The pilgrimage on Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, is a 750-mile route that links 88 Buddhist temples, each of which claims a connection to Kukai, a celebrated monk ...