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 ...

The adventure sport was inspired by Japan's traditional lumber industry. Felled wood was assembled into rafts then sent down the river -- a transport method used for more than 600 years. In the late ...

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 ...

The Kitayama River is the only place in Japan where highly skilled helmsmen are keeping the ancient tradition of log rafting, or "ikada-kudari", alive. Slender cedar trees towered over us as we drove ...

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 ...