Think sitting in an inflated raft while rushing down white-water rapids is hardcore? You haven’t tried the wildest rafting experience in Japan. Kitayama village, located about three hours from Osaka ...

KITAYAMA, Wakayama Prefecture--Thrill-seekers take note: The season for white water rafting on the Kitayamagawa river is now open. The six-kilometer trip on cedar logs through spectacular mountain ...

I’m standing near the front of a 30-meter-long wooden raft a few minutes into a journey down the Kitayama River in northern Wakayama Prefecture’s Yoshino-Kumano National Park. Piloted by a team of ...

National Geographic Channel has ordered a series from Gurney Productions that follows log-rafting Alaskans on the Yukon River. Premiering on National Geographic Channel in summer 2015, and globally in ...

In the summer of 1915, a lumber raft pulled away from a sawmill in Hudson, Wis., and began its several-day trip down the Mississippi River to Fort Madison, Wis. At its stern was the Ottumwa Belle, a ...