2016年11月30日水曜日

Tour Report for November 28, 2016

We were a little concerned about our November 28th Tour because of the snow on 24th and the crowded condition for Maple picking.   Fortunately, there were not many visitors as we had expected and we were also able to observe beautiful Mt. Fuji from the summit.  Though most of snow were melted, there were still some left and able to take a rare picture of snow and maple leave like below.


 Though it seemed to pass the peak of its beauty, it was still beautiful and enjoyable. Our guest from Philippines and their friends in Tokyo also seemed to enjoy our tour.  

(Cat)

2016年11月27日日曜日

Tour under autumn leaves in Mt. Takao

The season of autumn leaves in Mt. Takao is from about the middle of November to beginning of December. We got a request of a tour on Nov. 18th. We were four of us, the guest of a merry couple from Canada and two of us as guides.

They are avid hikers and wanted to walk all the way up and down, so we took Biwa waterfall trail to Kasumidai and to Yakuoin temple by Trail 1, then to the top of the mountain, went down by the Inariyama trail. Even Mt. Fuji welcomed us with snow cap at the summit.

The mountain was full of red and yellow leaves and the blue sky made them more beautiful and impressive. All four of us were full of smiles under the beauty of the nature.  (Nori)







                                                                                                                                                                    

2016年11月22日火曜日

On supposedly the busiest day of the year

Away from the two main groups of ours queuing for funicular cable car for nearly an hour, three of us, our guest Maria from Germany, willing to walk all the way to and from the summit, my colleague Cat and myself took a route seemingly the least populous, like this.

So-called Biwa waterfall trail, one of the oldest trails of this region to Kasumidai Terrace located at the same altitude of upper Funicular cable car station, Trail No.1 jammed with tourists, yet with some space for walking, Main site of Yakuo-in temple ( We always took an internal back road), and finally descending to the backyard of Yakuo-in to walk up so-called Mt. Fuji trail to the summit.

Taking a luncheon somewhere farther than the summit or descending to Uratakao with bus connection to Takao Station in mind, we miraculously managed to get a table around the summit while so many people were eating on the ground even very close to a toilet, and took Inariyama trail for descent as scheduled only with a very short stop.

My colleague Cat always led the tour nicely with a bit of contribution of my own on plants.
Our guest, Maria generously told us that she also enjoyed this venturesome tour of November 20.

We were more than happy, indeed.   (by Sumo)
                                  (Summit area with full of people)

2016年11月21日月曜日

TENGU TOUR on Nov.20

Our tour, surrounded by autumn colors and a crowd of mountain fans was held on November 20.This gorgeous mountain season was visited by different nationalities, like Germany, Vietnarm, Indonesian,and Bangladesh.The maple leaf festival held in front of the cable car station with traditional Japanese stage performance, enhanced our waiting for the cable car.





Burnish red color of maple tree leaves here and there, invited us to have lunch near Stupa, underneath the beautiful nature.



Yakuo-in temple drew climbers attention and was overly crowded.


Return to the cable car bottom station at 2:30.


Thanks to everyone who joined our TENGU TOUR today.
(by Kate)

2016年11月6日日曜日

Hiking tour under the fine weather on Nov5th

We had JICA tour today. Bakha(Tajikistan), Jayalath(Sri Lanka), Udaya(Sri Lanka), Briendral(Napal), Nasir(Bangladesh), ALI(Pakistan), Henrique(Brazil), GOBIN(Maurtius), Bishow(Nepal), Ramesh(Nepal), Samir(Azerbaijian), Lei(Philippines), Jaime(El Salvador), and Rodolfo(El Salvador) attended it from JICA. 14 TENGU guides and 3 visitors attended too. We took personal supporter system today because it was protection for a stray person. The best season of Mt. Takao have been started it was so clouded. We enjoyed so much and saw beautiful Mt. Fuji today.


                                                     (by Nao)