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Re: Rambling through the Intermountain Road between "Small Hamlets that Have Disappeared from a Map"

Yoshi K.

by Yoshi K.

(4 reviews)
Last updated : Dec 20, 20222 min read

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As my acquaintance kindly advised me the other day that autumnal landscape of some area, which already disappeared from a map faraway times is so nice in this season. Though it was almost cloudy, occasionally raining, so a bit chilly day today, I drove to the prefectural border between Shiga and Fukui, and then started walking, ringing a "bear bell" just in case not to encounter the wild animal. Miscellaneous kind of tree leaves on the both sides of the road have turned yellow, brown and red, and best matched with the mountain stream. (I felt a fair bit uneasy as I met not even a soul during the hiking.)
[Ref.] https://www.facebook.com/yoshi.kirihata/posts/4443542712403181

[The Mountain Stream, Which Seems the Riverhead of Takatoki gawa river (高時川の源流)]

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[Just in front of an old bridge which used to be much busier when they lived]

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[I was thinking that the autumnal season must be the best for the village people those days]

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[The Prefectural Border between Shiga and Fukui (滋賀・福井県境)]

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[The Skiing Resort at the Border is now being in Preparation for Coming Season]

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[Maple Foliage has Reached to Crimson-red]

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