…and if it is Room 1316 at the Yumoto Ginsen-kaku, you just might see a view like this one.
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…and many other glorious things and places, including this beautiful lake. It is a “drowned” caldera.
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Cherry Blossom time is all over in Tokyo, but in cooler Hokkaido Spring is still unfolding, not all trees are yet in leaf, and it is prime time for Cherry Blossoms.
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Kamikochi is a very beautiful valley in the “northern Alps” of the Japanese Alps.
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A surprise/shock awaits any whale-protecting nation’s citizen who strolls through Tokyo’s Ueno Park and happens upon Japan’s National Museum of Nature and Science.
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My favourite wine “product description”, as spotted yesterday in Kamikochi in the northern Japanese Alps.
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The caption summarises Gio-ji temple, as I and my beloved enjoyed it, uncrowded, two days ago.
Someone else, on Trip Advisor, headlined his post, Disappointing, many better temples in Kyoto.
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This chapter looks at temporarily dry land. Chapter two – coming up in November – looks at softer things that cannot survive quite as far away from the low tide line.
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All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken April 2017, near West Leederville Railway Station, less than 3 kilometres from Perth GPO.
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The shortest of the “big three” that dominate the central plateau on New Zealand’s North Island is Tongariro. The more “perfect” Ngauruhoe deserves an Academy Award – not just for its role as “Mt Doom” in The Lord of the Rings, but for so convincingly presenting itself as an independent entity, when it is in fact Tongariro’s “parasitic”, secondary cone. Ruapehu is the North Island’s highest peak and only currently glaciated mountain.
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