An online resource for some of the great climbs, hikes and trail runs of Japan. Thursday, 15 March 2018. To satisfy your inner alpinist, continue on behind the pinnacle where a final mixed pitch leads directly onto the 2829m. Summit of Yokodake, making this one of the most aesthetic days of climbing to be had in the Yatsugatake massif. This is the gateway to the Akadake-kōsen side .

Hana the Border Terrier runs the mountains of Japan. The end of an era. But after yet another fast ascent of Kaikomagatake in June, followed a few days later by Gongendake, her limping was painful to watch. A Happy Christmas to All. Senjogatake, the wrong way. Blue sky, a gentle breeze, mild winter temperatures.

The book Hana Hikes the Hyakumeizan. On January 1, 2010. A happy new year to all.

Playing Concentration or Memory, Heian Style. A primary conceit of the current age is that everything today is somehow new or original, completely different from anything of the past. This is pretty much the exact same game as Memory, or Concentration, a game nearly every Kindergartner plays with regular playin.

The sakura have now started blooming throughout Japan, and the unstable weather of the last few weeks has yielded to stable high pressure systems. Just be careful of the pollen and the poor air quality that is common this time of year. The official 2018 Hiking in Japan wall calendars have now been released. Hiking in Japan is now on Twitter. So feel free to follow and start using the hikinginjapan hashtag.

Tales and info from a kazan otaku. 400 explosions and counting! November 7, 2009. What this means I do not know.

Which Sake Are You? February 11, 2009 by maethelwine. Recent posts from blogs about Japan. Shige gives us a peek at Kappa-bashi. A Tokyo neighborhood with a warren of restaurant supply shops. Never really took off, but Pink Tentacle shows us what might have been. Neojaponisme gives a word history of the.

Saturday, December 19, 2015. A Christmas Shop in Salzburg, Austria. Colorful displays filled windows in meticulously maintained, centuries-old wooden buildings. Summer flowers spilled over flower boxes, as if to tickle our heads when we stopped to admire a window display. We were two of the expected one million tourists who would visit Salzburg this past summer. It was a magical stop. The Little Girl inside me spark.

Marul in vara lui 2013.

Thursday, February 14, 2013. I love the internet, for all sorts of reasons, but today I love it because of live cams. Yamanashi Prefecture have a camera set up in Nagaike Park. On Lake Yamanaka, which is marked with the A in the picture below. The picture above is also from that location. There is a nice Volcano Fuji moment after the sun goes below the rim. I only spotted one or two people movi.