Insight Guides Japan by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Japan
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2024-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

Because of the 1998 Winter Olympics, Nagano has a bullet train line direct from Tokyo Station, making crowds more dense. The journey from Tokyo takes one and three quarter hours.

The valley is a part of the Chubu-Sangaku National Park in the region of Nagano Prefecture known as Azumi. You know you have reached the area of Kamikochi when you begin to see cameo images of mountain peaks reflected in the ponds of the Azusa River Basin.

The unsettling paradox of visiting a rural area crowded out with nature-lovers can be avoided by visiting Kamikochi on a summer weekday, in early October, or in the spring shortly after the opening of the mountain road, which is un­usable from 15 November to 22 April.

Most walkers set off from the bus terminal in the village, crossing the fast currents of the Azusa River by way of Kappa Bridge. The origin of this strange name (in Japanese folklore, kappa are malignant water sprites known in their worst tantrums of violence to tear a victim’s bowels out through the anus) can only be guessed at.

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