Another warm day,a bit warmer and very sunny
Today we start walking on the better and more continuous parts of NB the nakasendo trail. For the past two days we have walked bits and pieces, picking up trains to avoid walking on expressways.
The group: six from Singapore, two from the Midlands, us and two guides, the main one from Venice. Four lawyers, one geriatric doctor.
Chrysanthemums are developed for size, these are huge.
Stopped at a power, apparently quite famous. Oven,pictured,400 hundred years old, five days to get hot. Went to but a piece but not for sales at $2300, saved face easily. Umehara.
Big black house as our ryokan. Also 400 years old. Run by a TV personality chef, tradional fish Japanese cooking in a modern way.
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