{"id":3530,"date":"2009-11-05T13:43:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T20:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2009-11-23T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T03:04:23","slug":"hakuba-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/hakuba-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakuba &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23104351trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23104351trim-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"lake aoki aokiko hakuba nagano japan fall autumn colors koyo\" title=\"lake aoki aokiko hakuba nagano japan fall autumn colors koyo\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23104351trim-800x513.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23104351trim-250x160.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23104351trim.jpg 1403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/hakuba\/>Lake Aoki<\/a> (\u9752\u6728\u6e56) being any more beautiful than it is in October. That said, October is when the fewest people are there. The lake was empty when we weren&#8217;t on it. We took a break on the banks and skipped some rocks. With no wind, the rock skipping was very successful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23105849trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23105849trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"hakuba aoki lake aokiko\" title=\"hakuba aoki lake aokiko\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23105849trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23105849trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23105849trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The surface of Lake Aoki was like glass, and from our vantage point in the canoes we could see large fish in the clear water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23124638trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23124638trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"hakuba nagano japan ski lift fall happo-one Skifield Kokusai chairlift\" title=\"hakuba nagano japan ski lift fall happo-one Skifield Kokusai chairlift\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23124638trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23124638trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/23124638trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We ate lunch at the bottom of the chairlift on Happo-One. The colors were great, and an occasional paraglider came over the ridge. The mountain side was covered in \u30b9\u30b9\u30ad (Japanese pampas grass). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t imagine Lake Aoki (\u9752\u6728\u6e56) being any more beautiful than it is in October. That said, October is when the fewest people are there. The lake was empty when we weren&#8217;t on it. We took a break on the banks and skipped some rocks. With no wind, the rock skipping was very successful. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[226,31,18,230,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}