Lake Chuzenji 2019: Walking the North Shore
It takes a few minutes to walk down the road from Ryuzu Falls to the north shore of Lake Chuzenji and thankfully the rain was…
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Lake Chuzenji 2019: Ryuzu Waterfall (竜頭ノ滝)
The rain steadily intensified as the bus moved west along Lake Chuzenji’s north shore and at the Ryuzu Waterfall stop I got off and walked…
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Lake Chuzenji 2019: A Change of Plans
Continuing on from the British and Italian Embassy Villas, I walked further south along Lake Chuzenji’s eastern shore. I had grand aspirations that day to…
Lake Chuzenji 2019: British and Italian Embassy Villas
A little further south from Chuzenji Temple are the former villas of the British and Italian ambassadors to Japan. During the Meiji Restoration era several…
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Lake Chuzenji 2019: Chuzenji Temple
With thick fog obscuring Kegon Waterfall, I returned to Chuzenjiko Onsen and then started going south along the east side of the lake. Though the…
Lake Chuzenji 2019: Kegon Waterfall
The next morning it was a wet, foggy day in Nikko. A storm was passing through the mountains and although it wasn’t going to be…
Nikko 2017: Lake Chuzenji (中禅寺湖)
In the afternoon I took a bus out to Lake Chuzenji, which is about six miles west of Nikko, higher up into the mountains. I…
Nikko: Escaping the Crowds
From Ueno Station in Tokyo I boarded a shinkansen (bullet train) to take me north on my journey across Japan. I had ridden on high-speed…
