After Kanazawa, I spent a few days catching up with friends in Tokyo, and then made my way to Karuizawa, a resort town north of Tokyo at a higher elevation.
It’s cooller there and the cherry blossom was still blooming and it was wonderful to spot all the different shapes and colours of sakura.
Two weeks was spent very happily there, mostly at my computer catching up on things, but also walking everyday and doing small sketches…
We even picked some strawberries, and I learnt that there are different types! I don’t know why I hadn’t really realised that before. We tried 7 different types and I now have a favourite type of strawberry…
Mt Asama is not as grand as Mt Fuji, but it’s still impressive, although perhaps a little ominous. It sits, quietly puffing away, reminding you that it could erupt whenever it feels like it. We walked in the mountains whatever the weather, and the foggy rainy days were as beautiful as the sunny ones.
The night sky was often crystal clear and we watched the stars and listened to the sounds of the mountain.
