‘How to enjoy Mt.TAKAO in Tokyo’I visited Mt.TAKAO, 55 minutes from SHINJUKU station. If you get off at TAKAOSAN-GUCHI station, that is the base of the hiking.Mt.TAKAO is the most popular mountain to hike in the world 3 million people go up every year, even small children and old people […]
‘HORSE CARRIAGE in Kyoto’I came across the horse carriage at the last station of TOROCCO train in Kyoto. If you get off at TOROCCO KAMEOKA station, you find the KYO BASHA( Kyoto horse carriage). They offer carriage 25 minutes 2 corses , one is go around the nearby area and […]
‘MITSUMINE shrine’I visited MITSUMINE shrine in SAITAMA prefecture 2.5 hours from Tokyo. This shrine was founded by YAMATOTAKERU , the son of the emperor KEIKOU in 4-5th century, also said to be a head quarter of SHUGENDO ( fusion of Shinto and Buddhism) in east Japan . The founder of […]
‘NOZAWA ONSEN’I visited NOZAWA ONSEN( natural hot spa) to relax with my family. This is the northern NAGANO prefecture 3.5 hours from Tokyo.This is one of the most popular snow resort in winter, I have visited skiing often since when I was a uni student and with my family. NOZAWA […]
‘YAKUSHIIKE PARK in west Tokyo’I visited YAKUSHI IKE PARK in MACHIDA city the west part of Tokyo. This is a huge nature park with big ponds .I came across the beautiful wisteria trees of white one and purple one . There are YAKUSHIDO temple, traditional buildings, many seasonal flowers like […]
‘SAWANOI-EN open cafe’I visited SAWANOI-EN garden cafe next to TAMA river west part of Tokyo. The cafe is located the open river side , very refreshing.We can hear the sound of stream and birds singing. There are open food court and SAKE tasting floor in the building because this cafe […]
‘UDON of Mt.Fuji’ When I go to Mt.Fuji area , I always enjoy eating YOSHIDA UDON (noodle), which is the famous local food of FUJI-YOSHIDA city. This is the handmade noodle extremely thick and hard texture, I really like it.The skirt of Mr.Fuji area is not good for rice planting […]
‘AZUMINO ALPS park’I visited AZUMINO ALPS park in Nagano prefecture. It’s a huge natural park with seasonal flowers. There are 260000 tulips and big canola flowers area now . AZUMINO city is surrounded by the mountains , the air is very fresh and streams are very clear. We saw Carp […]
‘YOSHIMIZU shrine in YOSHINO, Nara Japan’I visited YOSHIMIZU shrine on my way to the YOSHINO cherry blossom viewing. It’s founded late 7th century by ENNNO-OZUNE, the founder of SHUGENDO( mountain religion the fusion of Shinto and Buddhism).This place showed up in Japanese history some times by the famous historical people, […]
‘Mt.Fuji view trekking’ I enjoyed trekking Mt.Fuji view mountains near Mt.Fuji. These are Mt.MYOJIN 1291m and Mt.TAKAZASHI 1174m. There are close to YAMANAKAKO lake , which is the biggest lake in Mt.Fuji 5 lakes .If you climb up these mountains, you can see Mt.Fuji over YAMAKAKO lake , really beautiful! […]
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