I got it wrong. It wasn’t mosquito coils and a springtime fish--Katori (香取) and Sawara, the names of the awesomely picturesque area in Chiba Prefecture. In 2006, Sawara merged with a number of nearby ...

The Sawara Grand Festival is held twice a year – in July and October – in the picturesque canal city of Sawara in northern Chiba. Regarded as one of the three largest float festivals in the Kanto ...

KATORI, Chiba Prefecture—Photographers stroll around the area, play with their smartphones and do other things to waste time until the magical moment arrives. That is just before sunset, when the ...

Sawara Station is a quaint JR East station serving the JR Narita and Kashiwa lines in Katori, Chiba, designed to reflect the area’s historic merchant-town charm. It serves as the main gateway to ...

Are you in or around Tokyo and looking for a micro-tourism destination off the beaten track? How about Sawara, an historic river town in Chiba just under two hours from Tokyo, a perfect distance for ...

CHIBA, Japan -- In the historical canal town of Sawara, just east of Tokyo, a regional bank's subsidiary is fueling tourism by transforming timeworn traditional Japanese houses known as kominka into ...

This time we venture out to Sawara in Chiba Prefecture. It's a 300-year-old town where merchant families prospered thanks to the Tone River. We see how the community is upholding its traditions.

The Edo Period is sometimes said to have been a kind of Golden Age for Japan, but here in the city formerly known as Edo, it’s hard to find much of its material remains. However, take a trip to a ...