ex-section2 Jan 15, 2025
From a snake-like torii gate tunnel slinking toward the ocean to East Asia’s largest limestone cavern, Mandy Bartok found all this and more when journeying around the Nagato region in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
From a snake-like torii gate tunnel slinking toward the ocean to East Asia’s largest limestone cavern, Mandy Bartok found all this and more when journeying around the Nagato region in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Hot springs bathing may be quintessentially Japanese, wrote Mara Budgen, but is the modern-day proliferation of onsen, not to mention related accommodations, compatible with the nation’s limited environmental resources?