Blogs from Chubu Sangaku National Park, Nagano, Japan, Asia

Destination: Kurumayama Plateau, Nagano Prefecture (Distance from Tokyo: 195km, approximately 122 miles) Map → http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/nagano/sirakabako_yatugatake.html 　 Date: August, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- Most of us, I believe, want to keep dreaming of a good dream and don’t want to wake up halfway through to the end of a fantasy story. Maybe you wanna hire Leonardo DiCaprio to make your dream more enjoyable. But the power of nature just wakes you up every morning and your escape from the reality is over. The dream time of my wife and her friends was also over next morning after the brilliant stars were gone. But lucky enough for them, they were still able to put themselves in a dreamy world in Nagano. Kurumayama Plateau welcomed the ladies with t... read more

Destination: Kurumayama Plateau, Nagano Prefecture (Distance from Tokyo: 195km, approximately 122 miles) Map → http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/nagano/sirakabako_yatugatake.html 　 Date: August, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you know how hot it is in Japan in the summer? Maybe you don’t wanna know, because it’s CRAZY hot and muggy, too. You can go crazier than the weather is by the heat waves. Especially in big cities like Tokyo, it’s like hell because of the heat island effect and maybe more of the global warming. You feel the high temperature is attributed to something unnatural such as exhaust gas from vehicles. So you wannna get away? Of course you do. So does everybody. But do you have an idea of where to go to pursue the natural mild summer weather in Japan? Ask my wife. She knows how to cool herself... read more