An icy winter has transformed the tall trees of the Zao mountain range into wonderous ... Fu Shi-xiang, 31, who is from Taiwan and works in Japan, learned about Zao through social media and ...

Called juhyō, these surreal, otherworldly shapes form when freezing winds from the Sea of Japan ... Zao, or just 16 minutes on the Senzan Line from Yamagata Station, Yamadera (meaning “mountain ...

The phenomenon, rarely observed outside the country, is a winter symbol of the Zao mountain ... the Sea of Japan. The farthest north was Mount Piyashiriyama, part of the Kitami mountain range ...