Every six years in Japan, thousands of people gather in the Suwa region to witness one of the world’s most dangerous religious festivals. Massive logs thunder down steep mountainsides as men cling to ...

The Onbashira festival in Japan is considered the world's most dangerous, with participants riding massive logs down slopes and deaths recorded in every edition.

If you show a human being a very large, very steep hill, said human being will eventually invent some dumb-ass ridiculous way of going down that hill. You could watch the following video and think, ...

The Onbashira Matsuri is a festival where men climb on and slide down a mountain side on large timber logs, a holy tradition dating back 1,200 years. The lumber is then used to build the one of the ...

Lake Suwa is nestled in the mountains of central Nagano Prefecture, about three hours by train from Tokyo or just over two hours by train from Nagoya. This makes it a great weekend getaway for ...