Located deep within Kyushu’s Shimabara Peninsula, this hot spring town offers dramatic scenery worth the effort it takes to ...

“That’s what I enjoy most.” Kyushu is mountainous and lushly forested, and is home to Mount Unzen, one of Japan’s most active volcanic groups, as well as beaches that draw crowds in the summe ...

SHIMABARA, Nagasaki Prefecture--Locals gathered here on June 3 to commemorate the massive eruption of Mount Unzen’s Fugendake 30 years ago, which killed 43 people including firefighters and ...