Yanaka Cemetery (谷中霊園)
Yanaka Cemetery is lovely in any season, but April is the best time to visit. Today’s photo was taken on April 8. This picture is of the exact place where The Street of a Thousand Blossoms got its name.
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Tanzawa hike waterfall
My random image of the day seems to be pulling from my Tanzawa hike very frequently recently. Here is another photo from that hike near Tokyo.
A skull in Japan
Not far from this location I came upon this skull so maybe that sign wasn’t so far off the mark.
Hakuba Paragliding
With ski season more than a month away in late October in Nagano Prefecture, what better activity than surveying the fall colors from your paraglider? You can see the ski lifts in Hakuba in the background of today’s photo.
Wild lions in Japan?
On my Tanzawa hike, not far from Tokyo and the most heavily populated metropolis in the world, I saw this sign which says something like, “Danger! Do not ever enter”. Really? Are lions back there? I wanted to enter just to see what was so dangerous in this country which has been so completely controlled and tamed.
For some reason fear is a big factor when people are hiking in Japan. I’ve seen bears, snakes, and other potentially dangerous wildlife on hikes in Oregon, but in Japan the biggest threat, in my experience, are the black crows. Even so, most Japanese hikers head out with bells ringing to scare away the (non-existent) beasts.