YAMANOUCHI, Nagano Prefecture—Visitors to the popular monkey park here have been delighted ... be seen relaxing in the steaming waters at Jigokudani Yaen-Koen, leaning against rocks and grooming ...

Boasting 18 ski resorts, Shiga Kogen, north of Tokyo, drew 810,000 visitors in fiscal 2023. Yamanouchi is also home to Jigokudani Monkey Park, which is famous worldwide for its "snow monkeys," which ...

Japan’s team bowed ... No other nonhuman primate lives at such northern latitudes. At Jigokudani Monkey Park, roughly 2,800 feet above sea level and a three-and-a-half-hour drive northwest ...

In recognition of the high standard of entries, 25 extra images were selected by the Natural History Museum and put to the public vote. A tourist at Jigokudani Monkey Park, Japan, was so desperate to ...