Susuki (Japanese Pampas Grass)
October in Hakone is the high season for the susuki grass. I headed down to Hakone from Tokyo to see it with a bunch of students. I should have went alone. The students weren’t interested in stopping the bus long enough to walk through the paths cut in the towering grass. Meanwhile, I was salivating at the chance to get out of the bus and be surrounded in the stuff. Instead I had to settle for this low quality pic through the moving bus window.
I guess this is yet another reason why I need to go live in Japan again someday.