Riverside Hike

Hello!

We had a bit of a rest day today… although Jeff tackled the buses to go into town. A few hiccoughs in the getting back process but he is home so that’s a win!

Last Friday, we met up with Yuri again and went up to Takao where there was the start of a Riverside hike.

We had a lovely day! The weather was perfect. We’d grabbed some lunch from one of the million convenience shops so we could picnic somewhere and off we went.

(All the photos here are Rachel’s as mine are only on the big camera.)

The hike was about 11kms and it was a fairly easy route along the river. Not too many dramatic hills. The scenery was gorgeous. It was slightly cooler here… And we only saw about 10 to 15 others on the track for the entire 4 hours.

Most of the walk had flat formed paths, only a few other sections had more rocky uneven patches.

There were teahouses along the Riverside in some tiny towns. The one below reminded us a bit of the bath house in Spirited Away (a Ghibli Studio movie that is totally my favourite)

This interesting side water race next to the dam is there so the fish can access going up or down…

Lots of lovely mosses… That of course Yuri was taking photos of.

We had another Spirited Away moment with this road into the tunnel.

Sadly we didn’t come out at an abandoned theme park or bath house…

The last part of the walk was by the roadside…

Thats our train station all the way over there!!

We had such a nice day and a change from doing city stuff… Very much enjoyed!

xxx