The Snow Monkey Express Train is a quick and easy way to travel from Nagano to the Jigokudani Monkey Park. It takes just ...

TOUR Walk Japan’s seven-day Nagano Snow Country costs from JPY460,000 ($5070), including accommodation, most meals and transfers once in Nagano. A pre-tour pack lists all the snow clothing ...

Directions: Set your GPS or Google Maps for 6845 Yamanouchi-machi, Shimotakai-gun, Nagano prefecture; roughly a three- to four-hour drive from Tokyo. Times: Varies by season.

Snow covers the area around Matsumoto Castle in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on March 3. (Yuichi Koyama) ...

The air is crisp, the snow deep and undisturbed. The Japanese Alps tower around us, beckoning us to their slopes. In central Japan, just under two hours from Tokyo by bullet train, Nagano is known ...

The snow also forced Gala Yuzawa Snow Resort, about 12 miles by road from Kagura, ... They headed to a resort in the Hakuba Valley that had hosted events for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.

For comparison, a seat on the bus from Nagano to Tokyo Disneyland, a distance of some 250 kilometers, can be had for around ¥4,000. The town of Hakuba and the three snow-covered peaks of the ...