Hakone 2019: Cruising Lake Ashinoko
When I got back to Togendai Station I went down to the pier to catch one of the sightseeing boats that cruises around Lake Ashinoko.…
When I got back to Togendai Station I went down to the pier to catch one of the sightseeing boats that cruises around Lake Ashinoko.…
Having come down from Owakudani, I next caught a bus that took me a few minutes down the road to the Sengokuhara Pampas Grass Field.…
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The rain had come to a stop when I woke up on my first morning in Hakone but it would resume before I headed out…
Right by Lake Ashinoko’s torii gate are the stairs leading up to Hakone Shrine. Tradition says that Hakone Shrine was first founded in the year…
At Nagano Station I boarded a shinkansen (bullet train) that brought me down to Tokyo where I’d connect to another shinkansen bound for Odawara. Arriving…
We’re now down to the last week of my 2019 journey and it was at this point that I finally came back to the Kanto…
My hostel in Nagano had a guestbook and within its pages I took the opportunity to once again flex my unrivaled haiku skills.
While I was in Nagano I had the pleasure of eating some black vanilla ice cream, which just might be my favorite flavor of Japanese…
My final destination in the Chubu region of Japan was the city of Nagano. I would only be there for a short stay and the…
Having left Matsumoto behind, the next stop on my journey across Japan and Korea was going to be the city of Nagano. The train ride…