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We started our day with the surprise of being able to see mount Fuji greeting us from among the clouds for some minutes over lake Kawaguchi. It was cloudy all day, even some raindrops fell, but after having dinner the sky cleared up, we could see the stars and even mount Fuji let us see [...]
We meet in Shinjuku at 6:00am to set out on a road trip to the lake area around Mount Fuji. The objective of the day is to take photos of haikyos; it seems that the area was a very attractive holiday destination during the Japanese economic bubble of the eighties, and many hotels, resorts, restaurants [...]
Mount Fuji is surrounded by five lakes that were formed during a very powerful eruption 1,200 years ago. Formerly there were only four lakes but the biggest one split during the eruption into two lakes that are connected by underground water tunnels. The area that sank, known as Oshino Hakkai 忍野八海, is plenty of water [...]
Ooyama 大山 is a 1,250 meter tall mountain ideal to spend a day trip out of Tokyo. It reminded me a lot of of Mount Takao, as there is also a couple of temples half way during the climb, a Shinto temple and a Buddhist temple, and from the top you can see all the [...]
Kanazawa castle is located right next to Kenrokuen Garden in the center of the city of Kanazawa. It was built by the Maeda clan at the end of the “sengoku” era (around 1580) and is one of the largest castles in Japan by useful surface. To see it covered in heavy snow, with barely nobody [...]
At the beginning of this year I had the opportunity to visit Kanazawa for the first time. Kanazawa is a city located in the Sea of Japan coast and it is a quite popular tourist destination but considerably less visited than other places like Kyoto or Hiroshima because it can’t be reached by bullet train. [...]
Yuki Matsuri (雪祭り, snow festival) is celebrated every year at the beginning of February in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido. It is one of the most popular festivals in Japan during the winter season. The Odori park area, where the biggest ice sculptures are built, is visited by two million people every year. Ice sculptors [...]
