Another photo that came out rather well from our canoeing tour on Lake Aoki…

While on the mountain biking portion of the tour, we took a brief rest at Suwa Jinja (諏訪神社) in Hakuba. We have a Suwa Shrine near our apartment in Tokyo too. The colors were changing at the Hakuba shrine, and the atmosphere was quite peaceful.

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