Tag: micro adventure

• Hiking: Mt. Hijiri in the Minami Alps

  

  There are times out in the middle of nowhere when you can’t believe that you are actually there and this was one of them. Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya—big cities all unimaginable while stood at the summit of places like this.

  Sean

  August 29, 2021

  Hiking, Japan, Japanese Alps, Minami Alps

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• Hiking: Mt. Shiomi in the Minami Alps

  

  The weather this August—torrential rain day after day for almost two weeks. One of my goals this month was to do plenty of hiking, with Mt. Shiomi (塩見岳) in the Minami Alps being the main objective. Mt. Shiomi is a mountain I’ve wanted to climb for some time now but never quite managed it.

  Sean

  August 27, 2021

  Hiking, Japan, Minami Alps

  Akaishi Mountains, climbing, 登山, 長野県, Hiking, Japan, micro adventure, Minami Alps, Mt. Shiomi, Nagano, Nagoya, outsideisfree, Photography, Sanpukutoge, Shiomidake, South Alps, Southern Alps, 塩見岳, 山登り, 三伏峠

• Tōkaidō – Walking Arimatsu to Atsuta Shrine

  

  With Japan under another state of emergency and residents being asked to stay closer to home and within the prefecture walking the Kiso-ji (木曽路), Ise-ji (伊勢路), and some sections of the Nakasendō (中山道), now would be selfish.

  Sean

  February 4, 2021

  Japan, Nagoya, Tōkaidō, Walking

  Arimatsu, Atsuta Grand Shrine, 熱田神宮, Japan, micro adventure, Nagoya, Tōkaidō, Walking, 日本, 有松, 東海道

• Bike Packing: Kasugai – Gujo – Kadohara – Meiho Onsen

  

  Fukui prefecture (福井県) seems to be a fairly unexplored region of Japan for cyclists and as a region along the Sea of Japan coast it used to be considered an isolated region before modernization. It’s northeast of Gifu prefecture and getting there from Aichi (愛知県) by riding through Gujo Hachiman (郡上八幡)  in central Gifu (岐阜県)…

  Sean

  September 25, 2018

  Aichi, Bike Packing, Fukui

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