A Beautiful Sunday Hike

From Demachinayagi Station, the train took about 45 minutes. We travelled through some beautiful trees and past some cute Japanese villages on the way. It was a hot day, around 80 degrees, or 20 Celsius. Thankfully most of the trail was in the shade of trees, but it was still quite hot. At the start of the trail we were greeted by a bear warning, although thankfully a few months prior.

Instead of taking the bus for an extra fee, we decided to walk up the road for about 20 minutes to the bottom of the trail, but before starting we checked out a small temple on the other side of the road and grabbed some photos. Many people seemed to be simply visiting the temple as part of their Golden Week holiday travels.

Although the hike was short it was also very difficult. Like most trails, much of it consisted built stone or wooded steps. The first third of the hike was extremely steep, and after about 40 minutes we hit the elevation peak and had an easy decline down to the finish point with another temple. We paused her for a moment to take in the view and have a snack, before we started our descent down the other side of the mountain. This was much quicker as not only was the path shorter, it was also entirely downhill.

At the bottom, we passed through a small town on our way to the station and bought some mochi as a snack. Although small, the green white and pink mochi cost me 250 yen each! At the station, they had both cutouts and a chibi style poster of some of the station mascots.