Tag: Japan

It’s been a round 10 years of hiking – and it all began in 2008 with a short hike in Japan, in the mountains just outside of Tokyo, during one of the aptly named holiday periods called Golden Week. Exactly 10 years ago to the date, I went on my first serious overnight hike in the Chichibu-Tama National Park, now known as the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park (秩父多摩甲斐国立公園 ). I didn’t know it at the time, but for me this hike was to become the beginning of a journey of discovering the natural beauty of many different areas around the world through hiking and travelling, always looking to immerse myself in nature even in small ways in the most unlikely of places (like big cities or hot touristy spots!). More snapographi >>