Lucas Goes for A Walk

Lucas is a small, white and cute teddy bear.
He came to my place last year as Christmas gift.

Lucas saw many pictures that people took their "Duffy" The Disney Bear to Tokyo Disney Sea on blog yesterday, and he thought...

"I'm teddy bear too!(Even though I'm so small bear....) I want to go out like Duffy...!
I want to go to a park!"

"it's sunday!
may I go with you?"

Well, OK!
Let's go for a walk!
Today is Sunday, it's fun to go out with Lucas.

Takayama- 1(Takayama Jinya)

Hida-Takayama is a mountainous city in Gifu Prefecture. In the central Chubu region in Japan.
People call "Small Kyoto"... Takayama is a beautiful, small city with living traditional culture.

Access to Takayama is not easy, I mean there is no direct express train from Tokyo.
First we should to go to Nagoya(1 hour 40minutes by Shinkansen Nozomi), and then change to JR limited express to Takayama(2 hours 30minutes).
So, at least 4 hours in a train!
Another option is taking a highway bus.
I should be packed more than 4 hours in a bus...

But it's worth going!

at parking area near takayama.
I took bus to takayama.
snowed mountains in front of me.
I was so nervous to walk on icy ground like her.

Snowed Tokyo- 2

Snow accumulation reached 27 centimeters, the heaviest snow in the Japanese capital since March1969, the Asahi shimbun said.

" 都心４５年振り大雪、仙台でも史上３番目　東北なお警戒"（朝日新聞）

Finally Tokyo people was relieved.
It was fine weather this morning.

a train in snow!

Snowed Tokyo

This is unusual.
Tokyo has been covered snow since this morning.

It's winter in Japan, so you might be confused.
Why? Snow in Winter, it's not surprising.

Please read this,
"Japan snowfall disrupts air, rail and road transport"(BBC News)

The truth is, Tokyo barely has snow even in winter.

heavy snow wind blew my umbrella off.
a woman who was hurried to the station stopped and said,
"are you ok, miss?"

Tsukuba Mountain

Tsukuba mountain has two peaks, Mt.Nantai(871m) and Mt.Nyotai(877m).
The mountain is located in Ibaraki and easy access from Tokyo.
You can take Tsukuba express from Akihabara to Tsukuba station. It takes only 45 minutes.
And then take local bus to Tsukuba shrine bus stop(40 minutes).

a view from mt.nantai

Funabashi Andersen Park

Andersen Park is a huge park that located in Funabashi city, 30 minutes from Tokyo by train.
The symbol of this park is a classic windmill.

a cute classic windmill

Funabashi Andersen Park(Japanese Page)
(English page)

Funabashi city is a sister city of Odense(Denmark) where Hans Christian Andersen was born, so this park was named famous writer of children's story.

Inbanuma

I went to Inba numa just because I want to enjoy walking on Sunday.
Inba marsh is located near Narita city. The marsh is known for windmill and beautiful sunset.

It's not easy to access to the marsh if we take train not a car, because we should to walk to the marsh about 20 minutes(at least) from the nearest station. (Sakura or Usui station/Keisei line). Another option is taking bus from the station.

people enjoy walking/ jogging around the marsh.