This spring, go see a 1,000 year-old sakura tree, a castle surrounded by cherry blossoms, a riverside carnival and more ...

TAKAHASHI, Okayama Prefecture--A university lab is providing artificial intelligence-based probabilities on whether a sea of clouds will form around the “mountain castle in the sky” here.

In Okayama Prefecture, Land of Sunshine, we meet high school students revolutionizing a town's famous denim, then ride into the countryside to see a traditional storyteller. a part of Japan known ...

Tsuyama, nicknamed “Little Kyoto,” is an off-the-beaten-path destination in northern Okayama Prefecture. Tsuyama is ...