After surviving the fast-paced crowd walks in train stations and shopping hallways in nearby busy cities, Japan also has these sweet blissful havens surrounded by nature where you can detoxify and chillax 🙂 Case in point… Kobe is the sixth largest city in Japan but behind its famed Mount Rokko, the historical hot spring town…
Category: Nature
Grape-Picking at Kobe Fruit Flower Park
Kobe Fruit Flower Park is a lovely family destination with a ride park, go-kart, farm circus, fairy tale amusement park, Monkeys Theater, Forest of Horse Land, farm bus, putter golf, onsen, pool plaza, restaurants, farm circus market, plant factory, greenhouse, agricultural product processing plant, souvenir shop, and my favorite— gardens and fruit picking! The garden landscape…
Kochia at Hitachi Seaside Park
All these Kochia will turn gloriously red soon! (Usually in mid-October!)😍 . “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:” Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV Photo Credits: Fan [Thank you so much, Fan!] This is my Chinese guide, Fan, from my HIS Tour: #wait #patience #nature #grace #season #flowers #love…
Lake Ashi, Hakone
Lake Ashi. . You lead me beside quiet waters P.s. 23:2 . . #lakeashi #nature #outdoors #boat #cruise #ride #explore #trip #japan #adventure #wanderlust #travel #travelgram #travelling #igtravel #instatravel #calm #watercolor #rest #relax #mountain #view
Pear and Chestnut Picking
Gained a better appreciation for each chestnut bite. Even with gloves, the chestnut 🌰 husks are too prickly. We just picked the ripe ones that already fell to the ground. Pears came early this year so the trees were not fruit-laden. The boss explained how dependent farming is on nature [and for me, as with…
Autumn in Hakone
Autumn in Hakone 😍 . Loving the bronze, ochre, gold, copper, russets, amber, crimson in autumn leaves! Lack (of chlorophyll from shorter sun shine) and Interruption cause this beauty. Are you experiencing a lack or interruption in your life? Beauty might just come out of it! . . . . . #autumn #leaves #nature #art…
Mt. Fuji Visit
Can a vehicular accident be a blessing? . This morning (a rainy day), a car bumped our tour vehicle which caused an hour’s delay. Norie-san, our tour guide as well as Driver-san each had to call their office and then wait for the police. We had to move to a rest area for a safer…
BUTTERFLY IN THE SPRING 