Snowy Photos Japan - 2014
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The hike, it was very enjoyable, good weather. We only saw 6 people on the 3 hour hike, so amazing to have to ourselves. Constant sound of water flowing for the entire hike which was heaven. Ended up doing another 1.5 hours after the formal hike to check more out, and found the delightful clock in a stone (one of the last shots)
Man @ the half-way-house serving tea
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We're now up in Nagano for a few days, primarily to check out the Snow Monkeys, but couldn't help by swing by Googie's Cafe (aka The Flat Head Diner). The idea of an American Diner in the outer district of Nagano was too much not to do. So we went, turns out the founder of The Flat Head - Kobayashi-san was sitting next to us for a business lunch.
bit of Lightning Mag with Lunch
Kobayashi-san - The TFH Fire King mug on the table was not for sale, so I found out.
Some impressive looking wabash
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Thanks so much for doing this–this is by far the best photo album I've seen on this forum, and there have been some real doozies.
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Tremendous
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We wandered around the city of Nagano itself today. Hit the Zoo (Mrs Snowy's thing), and a few temples and random shops. A wonderful city, still very proud of the 1998 winter olympics with it's influence being felt with more functional english here than anywhere else so far. Was down to 1c this morning when we got up, but rapidly hit a beautiful 17c.
Airforce mascot
Not the only people heading to the temple
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The Snow Monkeys, yeah, they're amazing. Would have never made it without a working simcard, directions were way to obscure. After hanging out up there for a while we opted to hike back to the station and absorb the scenery instead of racing around.
In this onsen is a naked guy in public view of everyone going to the 'main' onsens. A snow monkey happend to join him in his onsen
The real monkeys?
Snow Monkey park is in the top center of this photo; not a bad location
This little guy had forgotten where the food was?
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wow. wade. it looks like one hell of an amazing trip. beautiful pictures too!!
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just great, thanks snowy's!