A sunday in Yoyogi park with sake barrels!
I really want a honda fusion, so cool!
So so cool!!
Shinjuku on a sunday night, there's energy buzzing here.
Enough lights for you? It was busy though.
So we ducked back into Golden Gai, and were welcomed by this little guy into 酔っこら処 bar.
Where we were greeted by the lively staff and regulars
Helloween is coming, but it was decided that I look silly in a chicken hat.
Not as silly as Takeshita though!
It's hard to believe that our next destination was potentially a mere 4hrs by train/plane/bus/ferry/bus from this photo.
"Potentially". Because this guy shot our plans to bits, and instead we slept in the airport then spent the next day on buses, shinkansens and a jetfoil (+ 2 more buses) getting there.
Our jetfoil.
Puff puff.
Finally we made it for a well earned beer looking out from our little cottage! Cottages Morinokokage.
The "beach" in front of the cottages
Very peaceful
Clear blue seas filled with fish ring the island.
But a steep drive up into the hills takes you through 2 climate zones.
To the home of Princess Mononoke.
Beautiful for hiking.
there is a deer here, try to spot him.
The trees are really quite big.
Those big trees again.
These are the smaller ones planted after logging several hundred years ago.
Then there's the "mother trees.
The loggers left them dotted around so that they would provide seeds and a canopy for re-growth.
It's hard to get scale of them, this one is one of the smaller mother trees, maybe 1000 years old? It's nice that all those centuries ago, the loggers left them. they are called "yakusugi" (or yaku cedars)
this little guy was basking on the path, Mr Snake!
Hard to believe the day before we were in Shinjuku!
The 4hr path was...interesting! Much less interference here than in places like the united states.
These redwoods are probably the hardest tree that I've ever felt, harder than knocking on stone.
The bus stop.
