Matsumoto
Our trip to Takayama, Shirakawago, and Kanazawa included four bus trips. The first three were all during the day and featured great views. The last leg (Kanazawa to Shinjuku) was a night bus–something I hope to never experience again.
Today’s pic, out our moving bus’s window, is from Matsumoto (松本市), a castle town in Nagano Prefecture. It was our second time through Matsumoto, the first time being on our trip to Hakuba last fall, but I have yet to see the castle. Soon after I took this picture heavy rain began to fall in places, turning the great views into other worldly views. The bus took us through countless tunnels and down roads with steep mountains on one or both sides. Temporary waterfalls formed down these green slopes as I rode on with my jaw on the bottom of the window seal in awe.