Here is a view of the mountains from just outside the JR Nikko station.I walked to the Tobu station and took a bus to the Kirifuri waterfall (霧降の滝). There were lots of other people there as well, and many had bigger and better cameras than me, as well as tripods. So, at least in Japan, carrying around a DSLR doesn't make you stick out!
After a short hike, here is the waterfall.
After that, I bought a stick of dango. They are roasted mochi (sticky rice paste) balls with a sweet syrup on them. Yum!
I walked up the road a bit. This sign warns about wild monkeys in the area. I didn't see any, but I know that they like to steal things, and you're not supposed to feed them. I think the idea is to keep their caution around humans intact to avoid ugly interactions.Further up the road, I found another road that had been blocked off to cars. After walking down that road, I found another hiking trail. It was rocky, in some it was more diagonal rocks, than a flat trail, but it followed a beautiful creek. And, as you can see, I wasn't the only one taking pictures there.
Here is a weir. It's a small dam, used to control the water, and there are many of them in the area. Some are over 50 years old, and have been designated as historical structures.When I returned to Utsunomiya station, there was a display of HUGE chrysanthemums, or ogiku (大菊). The Emperor's seal is a chrysanthemum.
I had a mushroom burger at MOS Burger, with onion rings. That's one place where you can get onion rings. Usually, things that looks like onion rings here are actually squid rings.
Then, I found a craft shop in the station. I hadn't gone upstairs in the Paseo shopping area, and this was on the 3rd floor. I found some nice Noro yarn, and got enough to make a muffler.
All in all, a nice day!
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Hi there,
I visited a waterfalls too but it was in Thailand. Having lived in a tropical country all my life, the leaves colour during fall in your pics simply appeal to me. It brightens up the otherwise gloomy mountain.
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