Scouring websites like Japan Guide and forums like Reddit, we've found the best of them. A note to readers, the word "hama" is Japanese for beach, and each beach's location shows the prefecture, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sunset at Shirahama's picturesque beach front is a local highlight not to be missed. Photograph by André Zerbe / Koworu, Getty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kerama Islands are found in Keramashoto National Park, southwest of Okinawa, Japan, and are a famously good spot for diving ...

A white-sand beach leading to turquoise water and flanked by lush green hills in the Amami Islands, Japan - Tororo/Getty Images The biodiversity of two of the archipelago's islands, Amami Ōshima and ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Think ‘Japan’ and many evocative images spring to mind. One that probably doesn’t is a beautiful beach. Yet between the coastlines of ...

There are many good reasons to guzzle down a Japanese hotpot. One being: it’s delicious. However, fatigue from having kayaked in 32C temperatures through mangrove forests is rarely one of them. That’s ...