North America
Temperate forests once covered the eastern United States, but now most of those areas are gone. Some remaining temperate forests are in areas such as Adirondack Park, Plymouth (MA), New York City (NY) and Kansas City (MO). If you think you need a little more exercise, you could try hiking some of the length of the Appalachian Trail, which is most of the distance of the temperate forest biome in North America. This trail, opened in 1937, is the longest footpath in the world at over 2,100 miles. If you managed to hike all the way to the end of the trail there’s no doubt you’d become an expert on temperate forests.
Europe
First settled in the stone age by farmers, the temperate forests in Europe are about 9,000 years old. Moscow, Paris and the Alps host this kind of forest. And, perched on the border between Poland and Belarus, is a unique area of wilderness called the Bialowieza Forest. This forest is a wild refuge for the European bison, which is protected by the United Nations as a Biosphere preserve.
Japan
Due to the large North South extension of the country, the climate varies strongly in different regions. The climate in most of the major cities, including Tokyo, is temperate to subtropic and consists of four seasons. The winter is mild and the summer is hot and humid. There is a rainy season in early summer, and typhoons hit parts of the country every year during late summer. The climate of the northern island of Hokkaido and the Sea of Japan coast is colder, and snow falls in large amounts.