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 2019: An Evening Walk
I arrived in the mountain town of Nikko late in the day after first taking a shinkansen (bullet train) from Tokyo Station to the city…
Enoshima 2019: A quick visit to the island
It was about 4:30pm when I left Hasedera Temple in Kamakura and I wanted to try to get to the nearby island of Enoshima before…
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Kamakura 2019: Hasedera Temple (長谷寺)
Just down the street from the Great Buddha of Kamakura is Hasedera Temple. The temple is built on the slope of a wooded hill and…
Kamakura 2019: The Great Buddha (鎌倉大仏)
After arriving at Kamakura Station I walked through town to the Daibutsu, aka the Great Buddha. Kamakura is home to the second largest bronze Buddha…
Kamakura 2019: Engakuji Temple (円覚寺)
While I was staying in Tokyo I did a day trip down to the town of Kamakura (this was on the same day that I…
