October 14th, Hirosaki to Morioka
At 8:30 we were on the road again. The first stop was Lake Towada from where we drove upstream along to the Oirase stream. There are several waterfalls and rapids over a 9Km stretch of road but only a few …
At 8:30 we were on the road again. The first stop was Lake Towada from where we drove upstream along to the Oirase stream. There are several waterfalls and rapids over a 9Km stretch of road but only a few …
As the typhoon moves away the sun was out again although there still blew a hefty wind. We drove North to Takayama Inari shrine. Before we reached the shrine we drove through two very large Tori’s, or big red gates.
During the night we heard heavy rain and some wind on the 6th floor of our hotel but in the morning we had this view.
Because of the approaching typhoon near Tokyo JR began cancelling high speed Shinkansen trains going to Tokyo. Ours left Hakodate at 9:35 and was going to be the last one to go to the capital. The next one would go …