GoNorth Japan Posted: March 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 25, 2025 "Join me on a guided adventure to uncover Japan's mysterious 'snow monsters'—the stunning frost-covered trees of Mount Zao.

But Fumitaka Yanagisawa, a professor emeritus at Yamagata University’s Research Institute for Ice Monsters and Volcanoes of Zao, warns that ice monsters will all but vanish from Japan by the end ...

According to the Zao Ropeway, snow monsters typically begin to take shape ... Fu Shi-xiang, 31, who is from Taiwan and works in Japan, learned about Zao through social media and decided to ...