Matsumoto

Best travel reports from Matsumoto

Day 12. Hiking in the Japanese Alps

Goodbye Kyoto, it was already very early today... Breakfast at 6 as our Shinkansen to Nagoya departs at 8:13... not that it would have been bad if we missed it, because unlike...

Day 13. Matsumoto

The breakfast began just as the dinner had ended. Many small bowls with delicious items, but also less delicious ones (fermented cherries are one of those items). After that, we...

The Japanese Alps

A mountain range that deserved its own name.

In the Japanese Alps

Takayama is located west of the Japanese Alps. About a 90-minute bus ride away is Kamikochi, a valley in the middle of the northern Alps. This area is part of the Chubu Sangaku...

Japan: Inland

Japan: Mt. Fuji, Kawaguchiko, Kofu, Matsumoto & Takayama