On Sunday I woke up to brilliant weather, yay! I took the train over to Inuyama, which took about an hour from my ryokan at the harbor, but if you think of it like going on a day trip to Mt. Takao from Tokyo it's not all that far xD


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Before the start of the autumn leaf season I wanted to try repeating this epic long hike from Lake Miyagase to Mt. Tanzawa once, because it's a great way to build stamina >w<  I was doubting between that one or Oyama Mitsumine, but I had enough hanging on to ropes and chains at Mt. Ichifusa one week earlier, so this time I decided to go for the ( Read more... )

After checking out the spots from the new anime, my new friend dropped me off at Haraigoubashi (or at least the spot it used to be...) so I could get an early start hiking. People are so nice T_T I'd been looking at getting a taxi to get there early, but that would've been at least 10000 yen... But the new anime spots were more than halfway toward ( Read more... )

On Saturday I wanted to do... something active, because on Sunday it would be raining and on Monday I'd be going to the new Kuroshitsuji musical afternoon show, so Saturday would be my only chance to really do anything outdoors... But I was still feeling tired after going to immigration on Thursday and to the office on Friday and hadn't really had ( Read more... )

Last Saturday I went on a day trip to Mt. Daibosatsu in Yamanashi prefecture, 'cause the leader from the hiking group I participate in sometimes invited me a few weeks ago... Because the plans were made so far in advance, the weather was a bit of a gamble, but at least it didn't look as if it would rain...! And knowing that this leader's style of " ( Read more... )

A few days ago I went on another walk to the site of the landslide on the Yagurasawa Oukan trail, 'cause I was curious if anybody had started working on fixing it yet - and if not, I was starting to think I should probably call the authorities in case nobody had reported that landslide yet... ^^; Although I wasn't sure which authorities exactly, ( Read more... )

Remember how I kept telling myself that I would NOT go hiking this holiday!? Well, I went hiking ^^;;; I had two whole days with no plans whatsoever, so the urge was too strong to resist! Also, on Monday evening it was really pleasantly windy and cool, which gave me the hope that it would be windy on Tuesday as well... And it was!  Maybe thanks to ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning I fixed some final things for my cosplay for the HxH event (1 September is really soon!!) and after that I wanted to go to the onsen (I trimmed my hair so I was all itchy ^^;), but the onsen nearby is super small and crowded and doesn't have a proper cold bath, so I decided to walk to another one that does >w<


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On Sunday I went hiking in Nishi Tanzawa~  A route that I've been wanting to try for a while, the Inugoe Pass route to Mt. Hinokiboramaru, had been closed for a while for repairs on a bridge, but I saw that it'd been reopened again a few days ago, so... time to try it!  It was also ridiculously hot, so I was hoping that the Nishi-tanzawa area with ( Read more... )

It was only 1PM when I caught the train back toward Sendai after having a look around Yamadera, which meant I had enough time to do my side hike that I'd planned! In hindsight I probably could've hiked from Yamadera to Omoshiroyama-Kougen because it's only about 5km, but Yamareco didn't show any hiking trails there (just roads) so I wasn't sure if ( Read more... )