Snow removal work is in full swing along a stretch of a northern Japan road that becomes a "snow corridor" with meters-high ...

More and more foreign visitors are getting lost and buried in avalanches while skiing in Aomori. Read more at ...

A woman and a baby girl were found collapsed in a parking lot between an apartment building and a financial institution in Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture, on Tuesday morning, in what police believe ...

But turns out the world's snowiest city with a population of over 100,000 is actually located in Japan. Aomori, the capital of Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, is a true winter wonderland.

As of 5 p.m. on Feb. 16, snow accumulation had reached 429 cm in Aomori city, 272 cm in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture, and 265 cm in Nishikawa, Yamagata Prefecture, exceeding seasonal averages.

Heavy snowfall has hit the prefecture since the end of 2024, including 126 cm in Hirosaki city, the deepest level recorded for a January. Aomori city was covered in 139 cm of snow, well above normal.

Take the magnificent Aomori Nebuta Matsuri, held every August 2-7 in Aomori City, which sees nightly parades of five-metre high nebuta floats accompanied by musicians and dancers. The energy alone ...

Aomori police have arrested the former head of a hospital in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and his brother who was a doctor at the hospital, for allegedly concealing a case of a patient at their ...

Certain parts of Japan, especially along the Northwestern coast, can get extremely heavy snowfalls in the winter and this year has been even more snowy than usual. Aomori Prefecture on the northern ...

AOMORI (Japan News/ANN): In connection with the murder of one patient by another at a hospital in the city of Hachinohe in Japan’s Aomori prefecture in March 2023, prefectural police on Friday ...

More and more foreign visitors have been getting lost, buried in avalanches and facing other trouble while skiing or ...