Where else in the world would there be a tourist ropeway leading up to a pungeant, steaming, and very live, volcanic crater? At least there are concrete emergency shelters installed for the rare occasion when the volcano goes bang.
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Sakura in Nagasaki
The cherry blossoms have started to bloom. These ones are at a shrine at the bottom of the Mt Inasa ropeway.
Hakodate
Hakodate is a city on the southern coast of Hokkaido, which used to be a 19th century trading port. There remain foreign influences throughout the city, most visibly in the way of of colonial era buildings. When Commodore Perry succeeded in opening up some trading ports in Japan, Hakodate was one of them. It’s also… Continue reading Hakodate
Hakodate from above
I’ve been in Hakodate for a bit over am hour, and made a bee line for Mt Hakodate, which has a sensational they over the city. But be careful of those icy footpaths – they’re slippery!