Tranquil and blanketed in pristine white snow, the Japanese city ... to the region every winter. But this sleepy city tucked away on the west coast of the island of Hokkaido has become the latest ...

Welcome to Japan’s snow-capped wonderland. A unique natural phenomenon, known as drift ice, occurs each winter on the Sea of Okhotsk, on Hokkaido’s northern shores. Ice drifts southward from ...

Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido and the fifth-largest city in the country. As Japan’s most northern island, Hokkaido ...