Quick Notes:
Weather: 13C cloudy 6C on the summit
Found a used rice cooker
Shinto shrine
Mt. Tsukuba
It has taken me over a week to get this post up, I’m not sure why cause I haven’t had anything else to do. Well here it is and sorry it took me so long. Of course like always, this adventure started with some delays and sidetracks. First Seth and I rode through a park because there was some event going on, then we rode by the pond in the park, then that lead to riding around the museum. While going around the museum we found a second-hand shop. There they had two rice cookers and some pans. We had been looking for a rice cooker so we bought them, but now we had to take them back to the apartment before heading out to Mt. Tsukuba. So an hour later we were finally ready to go to the bus station to find the bus to Mt. Tsukuba. At the bus station there wasn’t really a sign for the particular bus to Tsukuba much less what time it left at. We finally saw one bus that seemed to have the characters of Mt. Tsukuba so we asked the bus driver, and yes it turned out to be the right bus. Problem was that we didn’t know how to pay for the bus ticket and finally a young lady came to our rescue. She translated and told us to pay 700Y when we get off the bus. After a 30 minute bus ride up a narrow windy road we arrived to the little town where the Shinto shrine and the trail head for Mt. Tsukuba was. Below is the entrance to the shrine with two guard statues. If you want more details about Mt. Tsukuba refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tsukuba. Now I will let the pictures tell most of the story.
Me in front of the entrance.
Seth in front of the entrance.
The large Shinto shrine.
A cemetery at the shrine.
Seth walking up to a small shrine.
We felt lazy so we rode the cable car to the top instead of hiking it.
He is our view headed up the mountain. We climbed about 2400ft.
The train took us to the saddle point between the two peaks. We then hiked about 10 minuets to the closer summit since it was getting colder and colder. I wasn’t able to take any decent pictures of Tsukuba because it was so cloudy and foggy. Maybe next time.
Shrine at the summit. 870m 2800ft.
After sight seeing for a while we started hiking down. Yes we weren’t completely lazy, we did hike a little. After seeing some people struggling at the top I was really glad we rode the train up.
Seth going down the countless number of stairs.
Here is a little picture-video that we made of me going down.
It only took us about 50 minutes to hike down, but we were both pretty tired. Maybe next time we will have clear weather and we will do the hike both up and down.
Weather: 13C cloudy 6C on the summit
Found a used rice cooker
Shinto shrine
Mt. Tsukuba
It has taken me over a week to get this post up, I’m not sure why cause I haven’t had anything else to do. Well here it is and sorry it took me so long. Of course like always, this adventure started with some delays and sidetracks. First Seth and I rode through a park because there was some event going on, then we rode by the pond in the park, then that lead to riding around the museum. While going around the museum we found a second-hand shop. There they had two rice cookers and some pans. We had been looking for a rice cooker so we bought them, but now we had to take them back to the apartment before heading out to Mt. Tsukuba. So an hour later we were finally ready to go to the bus station to find the bus to Mt. Tsukuba. At the bus station there wasn’t really a sign for the particular bus to Tsukuba much less what time it left at. We finally saw one bus that seemed to have the characters of Mt. Tsukuba so we asked the bus driver, and yes it turned out to be the right bus. Problem was that we didn’t know how to pay for the bus ticket and finally a young lady came to our rescue. She translated and told us to pay 700Y when we get off the bus. After a 30 minute bus ride up a narrow windy road we arrived to the little town where the Shinto shrine and the trail head for Mt. Tsukuba was. Below is the entrance to the shrine with two guard statues. If you want more details about Mt. Tsukuba refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tsukuba. Now I will let the pictures tell most of the story.
Me in front of the entrance.
Seth in front of the entrance.
The large Shinto shrine.
A cemetery at the shrine.
Seth walking up to a small shrine.
We felt lazy so we rode the cable car to the top instead of hiking it.
He is our view headed up the mountain. We climbed about 2400ft.
The train took us to the saddle point between the two peaks. We then hiked about 10 minuets to the closer summit since it was getting colder and colder. I wasn’t able to take any decent pictures of Tsukuba because it was so cloudy and foggy. Maybe next time.
Shrine at the summit. 870m 2800ft.
After sight seeing for a while we started hiking down. Yes we weren’t completely lazy, we did hike a little. After seeing some people struggling at the top I was really glad we rode the train up.
Seth going down the countless number of stairs.
Here is a little picture-video that we made of me going down.
It only took us about 50 minutes to hike down, but we were both pretty tired. Maybe next time we will have clear weather and we will do the hike both up and down.
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