• Kerrie PalamountainJapan via Kuala LumpurTraveler
    4Kerrie's breakfast!
    Okasan (mother of household) serving breakfastOur beautiful Okasan serving breakfastOur Ryokan street1Okasan saying goodbye to our group.14We just loved our Okasan!2Village of Tsumago1TsumagoTypical of the unobtrusive small shops in rural JapanThe A Team about to depart on their 18 km trek6Tsumago was a 'Post Town en route from Edo to Kyoto and travellers wore these shoes delivering mail4Keso-Fukushima2Keso-FukushimaKeso-Fukushima narrow streetOur lunch at Keso-FukushimaOur Ryokan at Keso-Fukushima. Dinner table.5You wear Yakata to dinner;The menu for our dinner tonightWe each had our own meat and vegetables cookingSome of the 15 dishes we had for dinnerSushimi1Deep fried namafu & eggplant2The dinner tableNaz, Jo & Glynis being served dinner2At the Tsumago Museum4This is real Japan!

    Tsumango to Kiso Fukushima

    September 28 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Today was going to be the big 18 km hike, however only 4 chose to accept the challenge. The remaining 8 did a relatively short walk from Tsumago to the village over the hill to Nagisio where we caught the train for a 45 min ride to Keso-Fukushima.
    Before that, we explored Tsumago and the Museum where we were given a talk on traditional Japanese houses.
    The 8 renegades that didn't do the big hike had a lovely day exploring Keso-Fukushima. We had a delicious lunch at a restaurant before meeting up with the A Group who arrived at Nagisio by train (after their hike!)
    We were then driven to our Ryokan (much more up-market) where we were served a Japanese degustation of 15 dishes! This was a fabulous meal but far too much food!
    Tomorrow we do a 9 km hike through mountains, however, it will be much cooler and less humidity. We are heading for Tokyo and the trek will finish in 2 days time. A really great day today!    Read more