Japan's hot spring macaques in Jigokudani Park draw record crowds, with 257,000 visitors last year, 60% of them international. View on euronews ...

It'll be at the Kurama Onsen hot springs, which is on the western side of the road going north into Wakasa, and directly east of the Kuramadera Pagoda Viewpoint. When it's Winter, head to this ...

A banner welcomed us to the “Snow Monkey Town,” and signs in the station showed red-faced Japanese macaques soaking up to their necks in hot-spring water. The monkeys closed their eyes and ...

YAMANOUCHI, Nagano Prefecture—Visitors to the popular monkey park here have been delighted by the sight of wild Japanese macaques soaking in hot springs to escape the winter chill. Approximately ...

Six Japanese macaques standing erect on leashes ... in a volcanic region on the island of Honshu, “snow monkeys” lounge in hot springs. Years ago, after people began feeding the monkeys ...

A tourist at Jigokudani Monkey Park, Japan, was so desperate to get a close-up of this young Japanese macaque in a natural hot spring that she held her phone ever nearer to her subject. Suddenly, the ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...