All of us took the train from Matsumoto to the small town of Hotaka for a day-long excursion to a more rural part of Japan. After arriving in Hotaka we rented bicycles and soon found ourselves on some narrow roads leading out of town.
Presently we arrived at an isolated soba restaurant, where Shawna, Maz & Hali were to take a soba-making class.
Left to my own devices, I pedaled further into the backroads outside Hotaka. It was an odd sensation: alone, bicycling around in the middle of Japan, past small houses, streams and folks harvesting an abundant persimmon crop.
Photos: Flowers, Streams—Japan, 2008; Harvesting Persimmons—Japan, 2008; Bicycling in Hotaka—Japan, 2008
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