Friday 4 May 2012

Stop Two

By the time we stopped for the night we were in a different prefecture, where the sakura were just beginning to fall but there were still patches of snow on the ground.

We also found koi nobori hanging by a quaint little ski lodge and across a big river with misty snow capped mountains in the background.

So where were we?

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  1. Hmmm. If you travelled on the Chuo Expressway via Yamanashi, you're probably in Nagano. If you were on the Kan-Etsu ... nah, but then you wouldn't have gone via Yamanashi.

    Nagano. Maybe Gifu.

    Nagano? :)

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    1. Nagano!

      But where in Nagano? Ski lodges, mountains, and a statue of a white horse in the middle of town...

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    2. Yay! Gotcha!

      Nagano? White horse? Only white horse I know of in Nagano is Shiroumadake! ^^

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    3. Bu-bu-buuuu!

      White horse... 白馬! = Hakuba, the site for the alpine events during the 1998 Nagano Olympics.

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    4. Duh! Hakuba. Ah, well, I got the Nagano bit right! ^^

      PS: I've never even been to Nagano!

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    5. You really should go to Nagano! (Tell your Hero there are iwana to be caught!) It is especially nice in the summer, but lovely really all year round. I've been a number of summers in a row for my advisor's annual museum internship trip, a couple of visits to Matsumoto, and this recent trip. U and I both really liked Hakuba and wished we had more time to just wander about and go on a hike or two, so we'll go back again.

      How can you go wrong with green forests and mountains?!

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  2. Oh, and there's the koinobori against a spectacular backdrop. You win this one! :D

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    1. Yatta! :D

      I enlisted U's help so he was on the lookout too and stopped so I could take photos - which worked out well as I think the koi nobori shots are the only half decent ones we have of the mountains!

      Oh, and I have another photo for you I had forgotten!

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    2. You had help? That's not playing fair, but OK, since he's from Saitama, I'll forgive him. ^^

      You've got another photo? Of a trout? :D

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