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Mountain Adventure
... Luckily, this adventure went OK, but it did prevent me from adding a side trip to Lake Towada to my travels today :o(
My next spurt of adventurousness was when I took the path less traveled hoping to summit Mt. Takada-Odake. The path was so less traveled that the vegetation had grown over the path to a point were you couldn't see ...
Volcanic Hike
... adventures. For this first trip back to the Hakkodas, I pushed it to complete all three of the major peaks.
Left the house about 0600hrs and was at wonderful public the parking lot by 0730hrs, but I was far from the first one heading up the trail. Many Japanese enjoy hiking and it is common to find group of up to 20 people hiking ...
Aomori Summer Festival - Nebuta Festival
... miles around several city blocks. It was amazing how orderly everything was. Along my walk, I dropped into one of the many convenient stores and indulged in a Japanese ice cream. ....not very creamy, but very good. ....even if it had beans in it. Yes, beans. It also had strawberries, blueberries, etc. In Japan you never know when you'll get a surprise in ...
Aomori: Neputa 2
... turned the page and decided it was time to rebuild. In reality, of course it isn't like that in Japan--huge areas continue to be devastated and livelihoods are gone, but the cultural divide of 'shoganai' (there's nothing to be done about it) and 'gaman suru' (endure) says your choice is to wring your hands in circles or move in the only direction you can--forward. That the people continue to do so at such a 'fast' clip, is both impressive, but ...
Hirosaki: Neputa Festival
... because it was a hump day, neither the beginning nor the end of the festival, so everyone was in 'eh’ mode, I don’t know. I good way to spend the evening, but I’m hoping for more with the Aomori neputa tomorrow, where the floats will be bigger and more dynamic and the audience should be much larger.
So tomorrow is neputa, Aomori-style, with a day trip thrown in to Osore-san, one of the three most holiest sights in Japan. Ah, how I love the JR ...