Japan’s Snow Country

More than a Locale for Winter Sports

Welcome back to another installment of Japan area guides. As always, we’ll be going deep so that you, the reader, can experience a region of rural Japan without worry. In today’s post, we’ll be examining a slice of Japan that goes by the moniker of Snow Country. Spread across a wide swath of mountainous terrain that spans Niigata, Nagano, and Gunma Prefectures, this…