Nagano Page 2
Video of Snow Monkeyshttp://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8g__q6koY
Finally, time to start the JR Madness. It's good to escape from Tokyo, so the first place I go is up up up into the mountains of Nagano and the Japanese Alps. Spending the past three years in Hawaii made me yearn from some snow, and what beautiful snow it is! Powdery and fluffy. Alas, I heard that there still wasn't enough snow for a good ski day. Too early. Samuii! Mechya-mechya samuii!
Well, the shinkansen trip was smoooooooooooooth; went by in a flash! Then, local trained up to Yudanaka, a bus ride, a 2 kilometer hike, and voila: snow monkeys galore! They were everywhere! Cute ones and vicious ones. Wet ones and dry ones. All of them intent on one thing: gathering those food pellets the park owners spread out. (Should I tell you that they're in the onsen only because the park owners threw food in there too?) Kawaii! Mechya-mechya kawaii!
Back to Nagano by express bus, only to find out there's not much to do in town. It's a really quaint town though, and the ryokan I'm at is trippy; it has like 7 staircases all intertwined. Dinner was locally grown and hand made buckwheat soba noodles. . . mmmmm! Oishii! mechya-mechya oishii!
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