The station was a mad house; it happened to be the 68th annual Tokamachi Snow Festival. The town was filled with vendors selling bean curd sweets and soba noodle bowls and was decorated with ...

Asking around, I discover my visit fortuitously coincides with Tokamachi's 69th annual yuki matsuri (snow festival). In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism ...

TOKAMACHI, Niigata -- A traditional event where a newly married man is thrown into deep snow in celebration was held on Jan. 15 at the Matsunoyama Onsen hot spring resort in this central Japan city.