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63. to 65. Toriimoto to Echigawa
These two sections of the Nakasendō are at times rather horrible, with hiking along very busy highways that for long stretches have absolutely no pavements. So I have taken a detour to the Hikone castle, which was part of my… …more
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48. to 50. Hosokute to Fushimi
As I left Hosokute-juku, the owners of the ancient inn where I stayed the night graciously posed for a picture. This day meant hiking along two legs again, from Hosokute-juku, via Mitake-juku, to Fushimi-juku. I also hiked about five kilometres… …more
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46. to 48. Ōi to Hosokute
The hike of the day started in Ōi-juku, and ventured into the wilderness of the Jūsan toge, the thirteen mountain passes before arriving in the tiny village of Ōkute-juku. After a short pit-stop, the I crossed the second wilderness of… …more
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Moar wildlife
The hike today followed the Early Nakasendō instead of the “normal old Nakasendō”. There will be a post about that as well as usual, also explaining what the Early Nakasendō actually is. But these wild stretches of mountain roads I… …more
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23. – 28. Iwamurada to Wada
This day stretched across several old post stations, from Iwamurada where I spent the night, via Shionada, Yawata, Mochizuki, Ashida, and Nagakubo before finally reaching Wada-shuku. While the distances between the post stations on the Higashi Shinshu Nakasendō is on… …more
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14. and 15. and 16. Itahana to Annaka to Matsuida
Heading out from Takasaki is where we leave the Kanto plain, or rather the Karasu river is a great boundary for this just at the western edge of the city. On the one side, there is a flat and mostly… …more
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More birbs
Today I hiked from Takasaki, which I’ll talk about in a later post, but part of the path followed the Usui river, and boy did it present a lot of birds! I didn’t manage to catch even a tenth of… …more
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Wildlife so far
For all the talk of bears and monkeys in an earlier post, I have seen nothing of them so far. NOTHING! On the other hand, I’ve only been hiking through one of the largest cities on Earth, with only hints… …more
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Wildlife along the Nakasendō
Japan is among other things known for the northern-most living monkey in the world, the Japanese macaque, but there are a lot of other animals that you can hope to encounter, or in some cases that you want to avoid… …more