The city of Takamatsu in Kagawa prefecture serves as a convenient gateway to Shikoku, and is reached by train from Tokyo in around four-and-a-half hours or from Osaka in two. Travel by high-speed ...

It came from a Swiss International Red Cross agent, long resident in Japan: “Camp on large island of Shikoku in the north near Inland Sea, on fertile plain between hills covered with pines ...

Divided into the four prefectures of Kagawa, Ehime, Tokushima and Kochi, Shikoku can be reached by air, train, bus or ferry from Japan's major cities. With its 88 temples and sacred sites ...

Similarly, Matsuyama, a city of about 510,000 in Japan’s Shikoku region, saw its flight count jump from 376 in 2019 to 1,074 last year. Eastar Jet became the first Korean carrier to open a route ...

Japan's Shikoku has pilgrim routes, lively cities, odd villages, luxe onsens and - in summer - a feast of joyful festivals.

The city was forecast to have more snow until the ... Officials forecast 60 cm for Hokkaido and the Kinki region; 50 cm for the Shikoku region; 40 cm for the northern Kyushu region; 30 cm ...

The route, known as the Shikoku Henro, includes 88 temples where ... volunteering at a local inn near Ryozenji Temple in Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture. The inn is one of several so-called ...

Shikoku’s Ehime Prefecture has been selected as the host of Velo-City 2027, the annual world cycling summit of the European ...