last hike in the land of Japan, today dedicated to Mitake san.
gateway to Chicibu National Park, just outside Tokyo, reached after a couple of hours by train.
From the station you arrive at the base of the mountain, where you can choose to ascend by cable car, which leads to the top in 6 minutes, or if you climb up the narrow road that winds along the slopes with "moderate" slopes through forests of trees inhabited by flying squirrels.
Of course we have chosen to go on foot, following the narrow road lined with trees criptomerie 748, numbered one by one ....
difficult undertakings, but the landscape view from the top is definitely worth it, and the deafening silence that can be enjoyed from up there is really surreal for those who comes from Tokyo.
In the village on the top branch, a series of walking tracks. Given the late hour and some clouds looming we just get to the lookout point, from which the view extends to Tokyo (second panoramic photo).
From there we saw an eagle rising on a thermal and then launch into dive: a show to leave you speechless. With reference to the second view, it rose along the right, then down diagonally to the first ridge On the left and from there flew over the forest.
Going back thousands of years we have admired this tree, which graces the entrance of the temple of Mitake san, too, as understood by the rope of rice straw that surrounds the trunk, is a jinja, which is a sanctuary. I assure you that has nothing to envy to the Pieta by Michelangelo ...
The return him to us because the cable car, a nice car at 45 ° that has made us come down to the station, and from there we came back to Tokyo.
If you enjoy the holidays based on trekking, make us a little thought!
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