Hotel Route Inn Yokote Inter
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Back to Oirase for some real fall color
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I did make it to my normal trail head, but the trail was a muddy mess. I started up the trail about a quarter mile and decided my hiking boots were going to be swamped if I kept going, so I opted for a second attempt at the fall colors of Oirase Gorge.
I was richly rewarded along the river. There was still plenty of fall color, but ...
Living by the code
... the crowd. Everyone's phones were up and cameras going off everywhere around us. And on the street people were running up to the truck. Most amazingly, it was people of all ages getting caught up in the excitement. The scene repeated itself as we bumped into the truck again in street corner later on.
When things turned back to normal, it was a relaxed walk along the shopping galleries built through ...
Kakunodate, Nyuto Onsen Hot Spring, Zuihoden
... told me to call the inn before I took a bus so that I could get a pick-up service of the inn at the bus stop Alpa Komakusa. The bus was scheduled to depart in a few minutes, so I made a call immediately and hop on the bus. At Alpa Komakusa, eight guests got on a minibus from the inn, but another five had to wait for the next one. On my way to the inn, I thought Nyuto Onsen was bona-fide hidden hot spring, because it was located deep in the snow-covered mountains ...
Encounter with a samurai
... wearing kimonos (not sure if it is common for Japanese tourist groups to travel in kimonos, but there were at least 2 big groups - and I kept wondering, did they not have cold feet since they only wore socks and sandals?) Anyway, in the last house I was shown around by the son of the family, a direct descendent of the samurai family that has owned the house for hundreds of years - so technically, he's a samurai too! He did not seem very comfortable with his ...
Set Views
... way the sun happens to be cascading through the trees here or the detailed shadow of the spiders web on this chilly morning. In these photos there is no appreciation of light, of colour balance - only of subject matter.
And a photo is not worth its salt, the subject matter is without a key ingredient, unless a friend or a loved one, or even a random stranger, is stood in front of the prescribed view and holding up two fingers in a cutsey V.
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