Okutama - Natural Beauty in Tokyo!
- Tokyo, May 3, 2003
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| Most people think of Tokyo as an urban jungle, and mostly it is. Yet, there are exceptions. Okutama is situated in Chichibu National Park, which compromises about one ninth of metropolitan Tokyo. | Yuka and I got off at a station called Kori, and we started hiking from there. I do not consider myself a hardcore hiker by any definition of the word, but nothing is like a nice walk on a beautiful April day in Japan. |
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| This waterfall was not gigantic, yet made for a nice picture. | I am here walking in the middle of a forest in Tokyo. Imagine that! |
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| A view of a town close to Hato-no-su station. | Yuka has studied vigorously to learn how to make onigiri (Japanese rice balls), and I enjoy eating them at every chance I get. |
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| Yuka in front of a river. | Another river, or possibly the same. I do not really remember :) |
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| I believe this is Tamagawa river, which actually looks pretty nice before it gets polluted on its way through urban Tokyo. | In case you want to visit Chichibu yourself, here is a map of Chichibu! |