Autumn scenery——尾瀬国立公園

 From Li Kun.

October is the autumn season. As I know, Oze National Park (尾瀬国立公園) is a great place to hike.

 The hiking route we chosen is from Oshimizu (大清水) to Hatomachi （鳩待峠). It takes about nine hours. Of cause, we slept in hut at Oze. 

If you want to go home on the same day, you can choose Hatomachi as starting and come back from Ozegahara (尾瀬ヶ原, the most beautiful view at Oze). In that case, you do not need to sleep in hut at Oze. But at the same time, you will also lose the fun of hiking.

新潟県—佐渡島

 From Li Kun.

新潟

I was in Niigata and Sado from September 24th to September 29th due to the 73rd Symposium on Macromolecules. This was my first time  to participate in such huge conference in Japan. 

There was no opening and closing ceremonies. We can check the schedule online, and you can choose any oral presentation and poster to learn. Interestingly, I did not need google map to find the path from Niigata station to Niigata University because a lot of students were in the train.

Fried pork cutlet is one of the specialties at Niigata. Oku told me that Soba is one of the specialties at Niigata, not fried pork cutlet. The menu in the restaurant notes that fried pork cutlet and soba are "新潟の名物". But, I don't know whether "名物" should be translated to "specialty" or not. Anyway, Fried pork cutlet is really delicious, but Soba is tasted average, I think. Perhaps I just like eating meat.

Luckily, weather was great when I was at Niigata. I saw the beautiful sunset! 

After conference, I had a short time(4.5 h) to rent a car. First, I climbed a mountain (角田山, Kakudayama). There are three trailhead: Tajima Trailhead, 五りん石登山口, and 湯の腰登山口. According to comments, views from 湯の腰登山口 is most beautiful. But, starting from Tajima Trailhead, the route is the shortest. Because I had no enough time, I chosen Tajima Trailhead. It took me about an hour and a half to go up and down the mountain. Views is not bad.

Then, I was going to 角田岬灯台. Here you can feel the charm of the sea. On the other hand, you can enjoy the sunset if you are lucky.  

I had no enough time, so the video of sunset was incomplete.

佐渡島

Vishal, his wife and I went to Sado by boat. This was my first time traveling with foreigners, no any Chinese.

On the boat back from Sado, I saw the beautiful sunset again!

I learned a lot while traveling with Vishal, but I also felt that my English skills were lacking (Of cause, I always know, but it really hard to improve my English,). 

At the end of November this year, I have chance to travel with Vishal. But he have made another schedule with his wife when I asked him today (So sad!!!!!). 

Who can travel with me? This is a burning question for me!

三重県(Mie-ken)--------The most beautiful sea I have ever seen in Japan

 

2024年14日-2024年16日. From Li Kun

I have not traveled far from Tokyo for a long time. At the weekend, I came to Chiba, Okutama, Tochigi-ken to see natural view. Sometimes, I also want to go another city to travel. It was festival in Japan on 16th 2024, so there was 3 days off including weekend. In this case, my friends and I decided to go Mie ken.

First, we came to Nagoya from Tokyo by Shinkansen. Then I rented a car around Nagoya station. This was my first time to rent a car under my name and drove all the way. The fee of renting a car was about 27,000 yen. To be honest, I just wanted to rent K car, but I did not find it when I booked.

After picking up the car, we set off to Ise Shrine (伊勢神宮).  My friends told me it is famous because of 天照大御神. 

天空のポストがある朝熊山頂展望台

Although it was a good weather, but it rained at some area when I drove the car. At the Asama mountain view point, I got the answer. it was sunny at right side, but the was raining at left side.

At the night, we came to Matsuzaka city to eat Matsuzaka beef. The restaurant, Beef Club Noel, was chosen. This was my first time to eat 5A beef in Japan. It was really expensive, but delicious. it costed 7500 yen. 

In order to save money, the place of hotel we booked was far from Matsuzaka city, and we needed to pass though the mountain to check in. On the anther hand, we finished dinner around 8:30 pm, and it was totally dark, so I drive very slowly. But, interestingly, we saw deer. Fortunately, our car did not collide with the deer. 

It was rain on the weather forecast. but it was sunny at the day. So I was lucky to see the beautiful sea and surfers.

Last day, I saw the most beautiful sea I have seen since coming to Japan. （around Shishiiwa Observation Deck） 

My friend told me that the sea in Okinawa is more beautiful than here. So, if I have chance, I must to go Okinawa!