I took the night bus from Nagoya to Kamikochi after work. Got to Kamikochi early Sunday morning. We started the hike to the mountains around 7:00. The hike for the first 11 km is on a winding dirt road that looks very much like any cottage road in central Ontario. The only difference was that the road winded along a beautiful meandering river. The closer we got the mountains the water in the river became more and more blue.
The forest was host to the most delightful and elaberate bird calls I hav
e ever heard. The forest was alive with sounds and green. Sounds of birds, wind in the tree tops and this beautiful river.
The wonderful thing about the Japanese 
moutains is that you are always likely to run into some very colourful characters. Like this elderly man I met on the road up.
And here it is the, the peaks to be climbed. The Hodaka range. Next blogg more stories and pictures
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