Minakami - Tanigawa-dake!
- Niigata and Gunma Prefecture (May, 2003)
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| This is actually where you arrive when reaching Minakami station from Tokyo, and you need to walk up more than 462 steps to reach the surface. | The station is in the middle of a 13.5 kilometers long tunnel. As this picture clearly shows, the climb up is very demanding. You're bound to be tired before seeing a single mountain! |
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| Over the years, I have eaten a lot of strange things in Japan. Close to Minakami station, I ordered a dish I thought looked a bit like sashimi. Instead, it turned out to be raw horsemeat and raw deer meet. I am not joking here. Although I managed to eat most of it, I can not say that it was a particularly delicious meal. | Here a picture from the cable-car that runs from Doai-guchi. Every time when in one, I can not help but wonder what would happen if we should suddenly start falling backwards on the way up. |
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| I am not sure what Yuka is thinking about here, but hopefully it was not about the possibility of falling out. Unlike in Europe and most other places, accidents of this kind are very rare in Japan. | For some reason, we end this picture series back on top of a mountain. If I had some more energy, I would move the pictures around to get them in order, but I guess this is what they call originality. |
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