JAPANESE COUNTRYSIDE

The Tsuboya area has been known as "the town of pottery" since the days of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It celebrates this heritage every November.

No need to venture all the way to Thailand to view this lantern festival. Just hop on the bullet train to Niigata!

Destroyed by a landslide in 1966, this gorgeous village has been reborn as a stunning open-air museum at the foot of Mount Fuji.

Think you can handle watching these drone-shot videos and not be compelled to visit Japan? Just try!

The Curtis family recently checked off all nine of the properties listed under the "Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu."

For 50 days every three years, visitors to the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale get to traverse 200 villages to explore what is effectively the largest art gallery in the world.

A relaxing time-lapse drive through the Okinawa countryside.

Niji-no-Matsubara is a 360-year-old pine forest along the coast of Saga Prefecture in northwestern Kyushu.