Vail Daily reporter John LaConte snowboards through the trees at the Kamui Ski Links, a municipally owned ski resort in Central Hokkaido, Japan. Breaking News - Vail, Beaver Creek and Eagle Valley, ...

The highest, Asahidake, stands at 2,291 meters and is Hokkaido’s highest ... that once thrived in northern Japan. Asahidake is known in the language as Kamui (or Kamuy) Mintara (or Mimdara).

It is 3am and I am wide awake, scrolling through listings of Hokkaido restaurants on my ... Our first stop is Cape Kamui, a beautiful promontory reached by an easy 20-minute walk.

A film inspired by the story of a young Ainu woman who translated into Japanese an epic poem passed down orally among the indigenous people of Hokkaido ... “Kamui no Uta” is primarily set in ...