Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In western Tokyo, Lake Okutama is a natural escape that offers scenic beauty, outdoor activities, and relaxing hot springs.

I was living in Tokyo in the 1980s when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery came up with a new concept: shinrin-yoku, translated as “forest bathing.” The idea was to get people ...

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