Karuizawa to Tokyo 16kms 438m

 Another great day!

We walked back along a posh shopping mall to two lovely bakeries. Errin gave us 2000 yen each and said " go buy lunch"


Wow - wheat everywhere, no one bought rice cakes. We bought a 2 cranberry and ricotta danish, a curry bun, a plum and a blueberry turnover. And we had change.

We then walked up the road past very exclusive houses, hotels and restaurants. And up, and up and then we went up.

After two hours we reach a lookout with views over heavily forested extinct volcanoes. As with all Japanese forests there was not a building in site.


Over 400 m up, but then nearly one thousand down. Bears near the bottom, a mother with cub, Asiatic Brown Bear. We didn't see them by about ten seconds!

We ate lunch at about 2pm! Any later and we would have mutinied.


Ten minutes later and we were out of the forest and racing to meet our trains(3) to Tokyo.


We finished our journey at point zero in Tokyo (Edo). Great fun (mostly)




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